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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.

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
Inside
Change
Gate
Guard
Opened
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Motivational

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The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.
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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
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You always reap what you sow there is no shortcut.
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Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.
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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.
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Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
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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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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
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Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
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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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