Stephen Covey Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.

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  Relationship, Change, Family

• Seek first to understand, then to be understood.

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  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

• To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

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  Mean, Understanding, Mind

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

• When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.

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  Reflection, Emotional, Views

• The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you have listened deeply and sincerely, and that you are open.

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  Leadership, Real, Understanding

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• The deepest hunger of [a child's] human heart is to be understood, for understanding implicitly affirms, validates, recognizes and appreciates the intrinsic worth of another.

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  Children, Heart, Appreciate

• People don't listen to understand. They listen to reply. The collective monologue is everyone talking and no one listening.

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  Talking, People, Empathy

• To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

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  Judging, Rejection, Understanding

• If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

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  Teenager, Parent, Understanding

  "Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People".

• When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

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  Motivational, Integrity, Commitment

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

• You can't live principals you can't understand.

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  Understanding, Principal

• To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

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  Judging, Rejection, Understanding

• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

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  Perspective, Understanding, Balance

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

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