Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
STEPHEN COVEYMost 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.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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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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You have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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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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Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
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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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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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When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you’re pledging your integrity.
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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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Begin with the end in mind.
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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 see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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You can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
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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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