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Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

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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
Gardener
Garden
Giving

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Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within it is a function of your independent will.
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If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy.
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It's not only a matter of when to do things, but whether or not to do them at all.
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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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The most effective way I know to begin with the end in mind is to develop a personal mission statement or philosophy or creed. It focused on what you want to be (character) and to do (contributions and achievements) and on the values or principles upon which being and doing are based.
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When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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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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Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?
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Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them
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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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Do what is important, not what is urgent.
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