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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
Author
Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Anything
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If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.
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The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.
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Patience is emotional diligence.
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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It's not enough to have values without vision you want to be good, but you want to be good for something. On the other hand, vision without values can create a Hitler . An empowering mission statement deals with both character and competence what you want to be and what you want to do in your life.
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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All the well-meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans if we're not even addressing the real problem.
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