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Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.
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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Trust is a function of both character and competence. Of course you can't trust someone who lacks integrity, but if someone is honest but they can't perform, you're not going to trust them either. You won't trust them to get the job done.
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The only way we can handle change around us is to know what is changeless about ourselves
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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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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 you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
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In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
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As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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I believe that correct principles are natural laws, and that God, the Creator and Father of us all, is the source of them, and also the source of our conscience. I believe that to the degree people live by this inspired conscience, they will grow to fulfill their natures to the degree that they do not, they will not rise above the animal plane.
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It's not that we ignore our weaknesses rather, we make our weaknesses irrelevant by working effectively with others so that we compensate for our weaknesses through their strengths and they compensate for their weaknesses through our strengths.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.
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