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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
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The power of transcendent vision is greater than the power of the scripting deep inside the human personality and it subordinates it [the scripting], submerges it, until the whole personality is reorganized in the accomplishment of that vision.
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It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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Effective people are not problem-minded they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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It is extremely ironic that the more we care about what people think about us the less we care about people, and the less we care about what people think about us the more we begin to care for others
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want to lead.
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'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.
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You always reap what you sow there is no shortcut.
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The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.
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Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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