Stephen Covey Quotes
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.
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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.
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We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.
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I think that respect for people is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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Before you wonder "Am I doing things right?" wonder "Am I doing the right things?"