Stephen R. Covey
Stephen R. 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...
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Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and highleverage activities organize around them.
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage--pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically--to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good.'
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.
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Win win agreements are tremendously liberating. But as the product of isolatedtechniques, they won't hold up. Even if you set them up in the beginning, there isno way to maintain them without personal integrity and a relationship of trust.
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It doesn't matter where you're coming from? all that matters is where you aregoing. You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
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(With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With people, slow isfast and fast is slow.
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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
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We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
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Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.
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Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.
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We may be very busy, we may be very efficient, but we will also be truly effective only when we begin with the end in mind.
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To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection andfeeds upon itself.
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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.