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.
STEPHEN COVEYThe 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.
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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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
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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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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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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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As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.
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Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
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Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.
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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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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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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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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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