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To know and not to do is not to know.

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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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I win the private victory when I have made my mind up and commit to live by correct principles and to serve worthy purposes.
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Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of me-my wants, my needs, my rights? What would wisdom dictate - would it not direct us to focus on trust-building principles and sacrificing 'me' for 'we'?
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Whether we are aware of it or not, whether we are in control of it or not, there is a first creation to every part of our lives. We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people's agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.
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I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.
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Common sense is not always common practice.
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The enemy of the best is often the good.
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.
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If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.
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Synergy is the highest activity of life it creates new untapped alternatives it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
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We are product of neither nature nor nurture we are a product of choice, because there is always a space between stimulus and response. As we wisely exercise our power to choose based on principles, the space will become larger.
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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A moment of choice is a moment of truth.
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If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.
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In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
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Only 20 percent of employees working in large organizations surveyed feel their strengths are in play every day. Thus, eight our of ten employees surveyed feel somewhat miscast in their role.
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When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options.
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To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.
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