Stephen Covey Quotes - Page 22

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• The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.

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  Relationship, Character, Circles

  Stephen R. Covey (1992). “Principle Centered Leadership”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

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  Heart, Organization, Vision

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• Keeping a personal journal a daily in-depth analysis and evaluation of your experiences is a high-leverage activity that increases self-awareness and enhances all the endowments and the synergy among them.

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  Self, Depth, Analysis

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “Primary Greatness: The 12 Levers of Success”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can relate to your expression and the safer it makes them feel to express themselves. That expression, in turn, feeds on the other person's spirit, and genuine creative empathy takes place, producing new insights and learnings and a sense of excitement and adventure that keeps the process going.

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  Adventure, Self, Expression

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.377, Mango Media Inc.

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• Values determine behavior; Principles determine the consequences of behavior.

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  Principles, Behavior, Determine

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• I think that [respect for people] is of profound importance because it means you are caring and you trust them to do the right thing.

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  Mean, Caring, Thinking

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• Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.

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  Needs, Genuine, Possessing

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.45, Mango Media Inc.

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• Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

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  Goal, Challenges, Scare

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• The creative process is also the most terrifying part because you don't know exactly what's going to happen or where it is going to lead. You don't know what new dangers and challenges you'll find. It takes an enormous amount of internal security to begin with the spirit of adventure, discovery, and creativity. Without doubt, you have to leave the comfort zone of base camp and confront an entirely new and unknown wilderness.

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  Art, Creativity, Adventure

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.330, Mango Media Inc.

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• Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

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  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.301, Mango Media Inc.

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• Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.

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  Life, Working Together, Quality

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extraordinary pressures of life. It's how we make and keep commitments, how we handle a traffic jam, how we respond to an irate customer or a disobedient child. It's how we view our problems and where we focus our energies. It's the language we use.

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  Children, Commitment, Views

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• ...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

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  Believe, People, Church

  Stephen R. Covey (2012). “The Wisdom and Teachings of Stephen R. Covey”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• When people have a real sense of legacy, a sense of mattering, a sense of contribution, it seems to tap into the deepest part of their heart and soul. It brings out the best and subordinates the rest.

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  Real, Heart, People

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.583, Mango Media Inc.

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• I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect
  the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

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  Marriage, Would Be, Neglect

  Stephen R. Covey (2014). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families”, p.2, St. Martin's Press

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• Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

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  Motivational, Humble, Mean

  Stephen M.R. Covey (2006). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

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  Independence, Interdependence, True Independence

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• But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

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  School, Gaps, Lasts

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

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• Our problems and pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

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  Pain, Self, Principles

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

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• We're constantly making choices about the way we spend our time. The issue is not between the good and the bad, but between the good and the best. So often, the enemy of the best is the good.

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  Motivational, Issues, Choices

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• Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

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  Life, Voice, Differences

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

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  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

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  Sports, Team, Office

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Thinking, Purpose, Want

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.68, Mango Media Inc.

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• Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust.

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  Speed

  Stephen M. R. Covey (2008). “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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