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The more people train their counsciousness, the more sensitivie they are to it. It's like you had your own voice coming to you.

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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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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We can never really change someone people must change themselves.
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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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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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In many situations involving service recovery - the problem itself became the catalyst for the creation of even greater trust as the companies took the issues head-on and worked through the difficult problem in a way that restored confidence.
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Everyone has values even criminal gangs have values. Values govern people's behavior but principles govern the consequences of those behaviors.
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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 are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.
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An abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinions, possessions, or associations.
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It's easy to say ''no!'' when there's a deeper ''yes!'' burning inside.
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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
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I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past
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Affirm people. Affirm your children. Believe in them, not in what you see but in what you don't see - their potential.
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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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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.
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Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences violating them brings negative consequences.
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We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.
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Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.
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