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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

Stephen Covey

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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Emotional Listening Reflection View
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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Attitude Inspirational Ourselves Power
Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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Bury Teamwork
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Different Inspirational Love Life Ourselves
All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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Agreement Break Up Relationship
What you do has far greater impact than what you say.
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Greatness Leadership Talk Yourself
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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Ourselves See World
Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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Future Important Inspirational
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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Limitation Motivational Ourselves
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
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Important Inspirational Life Time
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Company Motivational People Talent Yourself
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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Goal Important Pay People Price Simplicity Struggle
Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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Improvement Inspirational Integrity Relationship
One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present.
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Important Integrity Loyal Present Trust
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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Character Children Heart Human Praise Recognition Understand Worth
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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Deep Inspirational Life Wisdom

Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.

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