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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
Comes
Empowerment
Within
Freedom

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Leaders are not born or made - they are self made
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The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.
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Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make
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Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?
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The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.
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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
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It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.
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Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.
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It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.
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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
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Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition.
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In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.
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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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Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say “no” to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the “good.
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