Stephen Covey Quotes
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Most people think of leadership as a position and therefore don't see themselves as leaders.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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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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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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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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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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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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 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.