Stephen Covey Quotes
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.
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We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
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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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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Principles always have natural consequences attached to them. There are positive consequences when we live in harmony with the principles. There are negative consequences when we ignore them. But because these principles apply to everyone, whether or not they are aware, this limitation is universal. And the more we know of correct principles, the greater is our personal freedom to act wisely.
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Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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You basically get what you reward. If you want to achieve the goals and reflect the values in your mission statement, then you need to align the reward system with these goals and values.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.