The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
STEPHEN COVEYEfficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, “like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic”.
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Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
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Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.
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The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living.
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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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Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
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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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There are three constants in life, change, choice and principles.
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Begin with the end in mind.
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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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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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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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It doesn’t really matter how fast you’re going if you’re heading in the wrong direction.
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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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