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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
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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Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.
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We do make a difference - one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives. Whatever we do with whatever we have, we leave behind us a legacy for those who follow.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
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Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way it's a better way, a higher way.
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One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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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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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.
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Your economic security does not lie in your job it lies in your own power to produce - to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That's true financial independence. It's not having wealth it's having the power to produce wealth.
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
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The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.
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Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.
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We think we see the world as it is, when in fact we see the world as we are.
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Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival - to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.
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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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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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We can never really change someone people must change themselves.
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