Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
STEPHEN COVEYThe problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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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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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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 problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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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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Begin with the end in mind.
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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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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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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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