Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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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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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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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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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."