Stephen Covey Quotes
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Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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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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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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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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Through it all I have learned that parenting is basically a life of self sacrifice.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.
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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
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What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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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 greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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."