Stephen Covey Quotes
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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You can say you love someone - but unless you demonstrate that love through your actions, your words become meaningless.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
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The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."
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Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.