It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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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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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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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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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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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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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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The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions.
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Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world – no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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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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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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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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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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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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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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