You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
STEPHEN COVEYTo listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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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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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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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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Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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