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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Businessperson
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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The worldly fountain does not breed spiritual depth.
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Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.
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In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.
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To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.
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If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
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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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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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The nature of life is to be a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty. The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
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It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us.
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Management is clearly different from leadership. Leadership is primarily a high-powered, right-brain activity. It's more of an art it's based on a philosophy. You have to ask the ultimate questions of life when you're dealing with personal leadership issues.
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I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.
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The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
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The role of the leader is to foster mutual respect and build a complementary team where each strength is made productive and each weakness irrelevant.
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