Stephen Covey Quotes
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories.
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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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Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.
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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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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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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.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.