Stephen Covey Quotes
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Organize and execute around priorities.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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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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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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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.
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Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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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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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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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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Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
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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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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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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.