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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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If we can't make and keep commitments to ourselves as well as to others, our commitments become meaningless.
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It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
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I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
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The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.
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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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Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.
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Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.
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When I started teaching I realized that I had never had such a level of satisfaction and such a feeling of fulfillment and sense of contribution. Just like that. But, usually it's more cumulative, slow, evolutionary and less revolutionary.
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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.
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Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.
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When people seriously undertake to identify what really matters most to them in their lives, what they really want to be and do, they become very reverent. They start to think in larger terms than today and tomorrow.
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I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.
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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
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