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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Businessperson
Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.
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Every exaggeration of the truth once detected by others destroys our credibility and makes all that we do and say suspect.
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The key to motivation is motive.
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What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you
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Success comes from the ability to view each arising problem as an opportunity for self improvement.
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Happen to things, don't let things happen to you
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly - with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
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It comes from within.
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Balance isn't either/or it's 'and'.
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Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
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'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for feeling, for meaning. You listen for behaviour. You use your right brain as well as your left. You sense, you intuit, you feel.' ... 'You have to open yourself up to be influenced'.
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We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
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If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.
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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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