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Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.

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
Change
Better
Way
Life
Synergy

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Values determine behavior Principles determine the consequences of behavior.
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The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.
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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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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.
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Consequences are governed by principles, and behavior is governed by values therefore, value principles!
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.
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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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You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.
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Quality relationships are built on principles, especially the principle of trust.
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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.
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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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Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
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