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If you don't have confidence in the diagnosis, you won't have confidence in the prescription.

Stephen Covey

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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
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Life

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Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.
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Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.
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The exercise of true leadership is inversely proportional to the exercise of power.
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Live the law of love. We encourage obedience to the laws of life when we live the laws of love.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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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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Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.
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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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It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
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We can never really change someone people must change themselves.
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I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Principles don't die. They aren't here one day and gone the next. They can't be destroyed by fire, earthquake or theft. Principles are deep, fundamental truths, classic truths.
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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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Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment.
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Results matter! They matter to your credibility.
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The key to motivation is motive. It's the why. It's the deeper yes! burning inside that makes it easier to say no to the less important.
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Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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