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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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.
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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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Without trust, the best we can do is compromise.
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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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In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.
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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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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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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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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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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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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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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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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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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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.