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Stephen Covey

Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.
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Action Hands Inspirational Leadership Motivational
People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.
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Feeling Impossible Intelligence Motivational People Reason Thinking
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
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
Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
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Business Expectation Forgiveness Freedom Hate Heart
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
You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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Flower Inspirational Water Yourself
Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Company Motivational People Talent Yourself
Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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Seek Understand Yourself
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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Greatness Learning Mistake Yourself
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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Experience Kind Value Yourself
Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Courageous Result Thinking
You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Efficiant Yourself
It’s better to be humbled by the word than by the force of circumstances.
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Circumstances Force Humble World
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Leadership Management
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

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