Stephen Covey Quotes
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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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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Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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It's not that we ignore our weaknesses; rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
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Make time for planning: Wars are won in the general's tent.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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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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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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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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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.