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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activities clear goals organize picture priorities
Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and highleverage activities organize around them.
fast save slow
(With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With people, slow isfast and fast is slow.
form human inspirational judge rejection understanding
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection andfeeds upon itself.
freedom motivational scholars-and-scholarship stimulus
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
choose freedom greatest power response stimulus
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose
american-businessman creative four human power self ultimate
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.
action choose consequences free
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
affects bury constantly cumulative cynicism deep feelings forth higher illnesses later meaning minor people quality rage relationships repressed suppressed toward uglier
Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.
accomplish delegation either time
We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.
behave coming inspirational matter matters problems talk
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.
behavior feelings function
Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.
begin effective truly
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.
cannot choices choose deeply inspirational life today until
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.
cannot choice choices choose deeply otherwise today until
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