Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
STEPHEN COVEYMost people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.
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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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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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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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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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