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I Believe That God Is The Source Of All The Universal, Timeless Principles. And To Him, I Give All The Credit And The Glory. However, To A Person Who Is Not Religious, I Believe They Can Live To The Highest Level Of Their Conscience And Develop Spiritual Intelligence That Surpasses Most People, Including Many Religious People, Who Profess But Do Not Practice.

-Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey

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I Believe That God Is The Source Of All The Universal, Timeless Principles. And To Him, I Give All The Credit And The Glory. However, To A Person Who Is Not Religious, I Believe They Can Live To The Highest Level Of Their Conscience And Develop Spiritual Intelligence That Surpasses Most People, Including Many Religious People, Who Profess But Do Not Practice.

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The Reflection Of The Current Social Paradigm Tells Us We Are Largely Determined By Conditioning And Conditions.

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If Two People Have The Same Opinion, One Is Unnecessary. ... I Don't Want To Talk, To Communicate, With Someone Who Agrees With Me; I Want To Communicate With You Because You See It Differently. I Value That Difference.

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What One Great Idea Resonates Deeper In The Soul Than Any Other...that We Are Free To Choose. Next To Life Itself, The Power To Choose Is Your Greatest Gift.

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What Is Important To Another Person Must Be As Important To You As The Other Person Is To You

The Ability To Subordinate An Impulse To A Value Is The Essence Of The Proactive Person. Reactive People Are Driven By Feelings, By Circumstances, By Conditions, By Their Environment. Proactive People Are Driven By Values - Carefully Thought About, Selected And Internalized Values.

At The Core, There Is One Simple, Overarching Reason Why So Many People Remain Unsatisfied In Their Work And Why Most Organisations Fail To Draw Out The Greatest Talent, Ingenuity, And Creativity Of Their People And Never Become Truly Great, Enduring Organisations. It Stems From An Incomplete Paradigm Of Who We Are - Our Fundamental View Of Human Nature. The Fundamental Reality Is, Human Beings Are Not Things Needing To Be Motivated And Controlled; They Are Four-dimensional - Body, Mind, Heart, And Spirit.

You Can't Talk Your Way Out Of A Problem You Behaved Your Way Into!

Interpersonal Skills

I Teach People How To Treat Me By What I Will Allow.

Writing Distills, Crystallizes, And Clarifies Thought.

If There Is No Gardener There Is No Garden.

To Change Ourselves Effectively, We First Had To Change Our Perceptions.

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