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Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.

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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
Proactive
Verbs
Fruit
Feeling
Feelings
Love
Verb

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The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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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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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
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The great apparent dichotomy is that the more we give, the more we get.
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We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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To know and not to do is not to know.
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Nevertheless, the only way we can move from where we are now to where we would like to be is to accept where we are now.
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True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
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