We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
STEPHEN COVEYAlmost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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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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See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
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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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Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven’t paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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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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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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You can buy a person’s hands but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.
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All broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
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You can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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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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You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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