Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEYSeek to understand before you seek to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEYWe judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
STEPHEN COVEYWhen 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 COVEYAll broken relationships can be traced back to broken agreements.
STEPHEN COVEYEfficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
STEPHEN COVEYYou have two ears and one mouth. Use them accordingly.
STEPHEN COVEYThere are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
STEPHEN COVEYMost people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEYYou have to water the flowers you want to grow.
STEPHEN COVEYTo change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
STEPHEN COVEYYou can’t change the fruit without changing the root.
STEPHEN COVEYLive your life by a compass, not a clock.
STEPHEN COVEYWe immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
STEPHEN COVEYYou can’t talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
STEPHEN COVEYLink yourself to your potential, not to your past.
STEPHEN COVEYOur ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.
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