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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.

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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Everyone
Many
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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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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
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We are product of neither nature nor nurture we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
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Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.
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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.
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Values determine behavior Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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Start small, make a promise and keep it. Then, make larger promises and keep them. Eventually, your honor will become greater than your moods or your circumstances, which includes your medical condition and other people's stereotypic observations. Once you overcome this comparison based mentality, your confidence will soar.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.
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We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to then speak openly and to be understood come much more naturally and easily.
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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I see myself living by correct principles and accomplishing worthy purposes. One of my favorite quotes is, The greatest battles of life are fought out every day in the silent chambers of one's own soul. (David O. McKay).
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We tend to get what we expect - both from ourselves and from others. When we expect more, we tend to get more when we expect less, we tend to get less.
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