Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEYTo achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.
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Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
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The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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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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Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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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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Internal victories precede external victories.
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Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
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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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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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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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The problems in life come when we’re sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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