Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey
Stephen Richards Coveywas an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book was The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth24 October 1932
CitySalt Lake City, UT
CountryUnited States of America
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can't get creative and find alternate solutions if they don't listen to each other. There's a lot of arguing and justifying.
Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
Life is a mission, not a career.
The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.
The key to creating passion in your life is to find your unique talents, and your special role and purpose in the world.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.
Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.
Trust is the highest form of human motivation.
Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values and priorities.