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Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!
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
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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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Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
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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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The universal elements are integrity, vision, discipline, passion, governed by conscience. Conscience has been educated through studying and pondering the universal, timeless principles of all six major world religions.
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Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you.
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Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
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What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?
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What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.
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You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!
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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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But until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.
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Frustration is a function of our expectations.
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A personal mission statement becomes the DNA for every other decision we make.
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You can't change the fruit without changing the root.
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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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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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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations
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