Stephen Covey

Stephen Covey

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
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"Live out of your imagination, not your history."
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"When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust."
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"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles."
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"In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education."
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"Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for."
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"Trust is central to an economy that works."
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"When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems."
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"Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge."
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"Leadership is a choice, not a position."
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"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."
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"Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out."
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"When we value correct principles, we have truth - a knowledge of things as they are."
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"An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success."
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"We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice."
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"It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are."
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"We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals."
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"Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change."
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"When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence."
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"It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize."
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"Strength lies in differences, not in similarities."
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