Stephen Covey Quotes
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
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We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
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If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.
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Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
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If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
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If you focus on principles, you empower everyone who understands those principles to act without constant monitoring, evaluating, correcting, or controlling.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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Valuing differences is what really drives synergy. Do you truly value the mental, emotional, and psychological differences among people? Or do you wish everyone would just agree with you so you could all get along? Many people mistake uniformity for unity; sameness for oneness. One word--boring! Differences should be seen as strengths, not weaknesses. They add zest to life.
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As we create synergy among the roles of our lives, there's more of us to put into the time we have.
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The greatest thing you can do for your children is love your spouse.
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The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.
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Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.
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When we succumb to believing that we are victims of our circumstances and yield to the plight of determinism, we lose hope, we lose drive, and we settle into resignation and stagnation.
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While I believe in the power of positive thought, I do not believe that you or I can simply psyche ourselves into success or peace of mind.
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Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
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Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.
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Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.
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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.