The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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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We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
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To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
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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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We see the world, not as it is, but as we are – or, as we are conditioned to see it.
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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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To listen with empathy is the most important human skill.
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You have to water the flowers you want to grow.
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What you see often depends on what you are looking for.
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We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
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Whenever you experience stress of any kind, look into yourself and ask, In what way am I compromising my innermost values in this situation?
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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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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While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.
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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 talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!
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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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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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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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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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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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 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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