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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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The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand they listen with the intent to reply.
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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.
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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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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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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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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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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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I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.
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It's better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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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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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.
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The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.
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Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.
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