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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seek understand understanding
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
form human inspirational judge rejection understanding
To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection andfeeds upon itself.
ability change changeless core inside key motivational people
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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.
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.
bigger burning decide enemy highest inspirational motivational priorities
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.'
agreements hold inspirational integrity maintain personal product relationship win
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.
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.
action choose consequences free
While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
fast save slow
(With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With people, slow isfast and fast is slow.
creates illusion importance noise urgency
The noise of urgency creates an illusion of importance
combined effect individual
Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds thesum of their individual effects.