Stephen Covey Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet-therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul's code.

  Stephen Covey

  Lying, Passion, Voice

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek. How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity, but, ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.

  Stephen Covey

  Creativity, Unique, Law

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

• At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw out the greatest talent, ingenuity, and creativity of their people and never become truly great, enduring organisations. It stems from an incomplete paradigm of who we are - our fundamental view of human nature. The fundamental reality is, human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four-dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Creativity, Simple

• Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined leisure time in which a person continually takes the course of least resistance gradually wastes a life. It ensures that a person's capacities stay dormant, that talents remain undeveloped, that the mind and spirit become lethargic and that the heart remains unfulfilled.

  Stephen Covey

  Happiness, Heart, Vacation

• If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Character, Greatness

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

• When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence.

  Stephen Covey

  Strength, Children, Home

  "Our Children and the Crisis in Education" by Stephen R. Covey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2010.

• Listen, involve, synergize at work. Then you will bury the old and create an entirely new winning culture which will unleash people's talents and create complementary teams where strengths are made productive and weakness are made irrelevant through the strengths of others.

  Stephen Covey

  Team, Winning, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Trust is clearly a key competency. A competency or skill that can be learned, taught, and improved and one that talent can be screened for.

  Stephen Covey

  Keys, Skills, Taught

  Source: www.christiansarkar.com

• 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.

  Stephen Covey

  Passion, Unique, Organization

• The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.

  Stephen Covey

  Passion, Unique, Keys

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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