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You always reap what you sow there is no shortcut.

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Stephen Covey
Age: 79 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 24
Died: 2012
Died: July 16
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Professor
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Stephen Richards Covey
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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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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Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.
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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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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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People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.
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