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The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

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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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Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
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Building and repairing relationships are long-term investments.
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Effective people are not problem-minded they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts.
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Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
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In the long run, you can never accomplish a worthy end with an unworthy means.
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I try to exercise regularly every day, if I can. It renews you and it gives you more balance in your life. This is a key leverage point.
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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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It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it.
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To receive gratitude with grace is a form of gratitude by itself, and not always an easy art to master.
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Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?
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How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office - or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
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