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There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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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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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
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All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation.
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Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
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When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.
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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
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we're responsible for our own lives.
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