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The struggle comes when we sense a gap between the clock and the compass - when what we do doesn't contribute to what is most important in our lives.
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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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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You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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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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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
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In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.
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The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.
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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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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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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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You always reap what you sow there is no shortcut.
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The key to motivation is motive.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.
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You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life.
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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.
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Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.
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The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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