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Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

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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
Persons
Person
Distinguish
Performance
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Behavior

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Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
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Principles are the territory. Values are maps.
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How you treat the one reveals how you regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.
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If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.
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Common sense is not always common practice.
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We're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realise we're in the wrong jungle.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
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Seek to understand rather than be understood.
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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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As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.
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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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Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
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To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which life is made.
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Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don't forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.
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