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Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood Habit 6: Synergize Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw

Stephen Covey

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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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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
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If we know how to listen to our own heart, we can listen to the hearts of others.
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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
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The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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Belief is another word for paradigm. It's a synonymous. Your belief of the way things are. Values are the way things should be, it's a paradigm of the way things should be. Beliefs are the paradigms of the way things are.
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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It's better to be trusted than to be liked.
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Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.
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We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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we're responsible for our own lives.
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.
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We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place, after effectiveness. The symbol of effectiveness is the compass a sense of direction, purpose, vision, perspective, and balance. But the empowerment process itself is not efficient.
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Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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