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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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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While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
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Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose
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We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.
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Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.
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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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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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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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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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Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds thesum of their individual effects.
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Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts andto write a new one.
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The ''Inside-Out'' approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self / with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.