Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them.
STEPHEN COVEYIt takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
More Stephen Covey Quotes
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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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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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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We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
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Being is seeing in the human dimension.
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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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Don’t get buried in the thick of thin things.
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Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
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Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.
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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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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
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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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