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You Will Never Be Able To Truly Step Inside Another Person, To See The World As He Sees It, Until You Develop The Pure Desire, The Strength Of Personal Character, And The Positive Emotional Bank Account, As Well As The Empathetic Listening Skills To Do It.

-Stephen Covey

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Stephen Covey

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You Will Never Be Able To Truly Step Inside Another Person, To See The World As He Sees It, Until You Develop The Pure Desire, The Strength Of Personal Character, And The Positive Emotional Bank Account, As Well As The Empathetic Listening Skills To Do It.

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As A Principle-centered Person You Try To Stand Apart From The Emotion Of The Situation And From Other Factors That Would Act On You, And Evaluate The Options. Looking At The Balanced Whole-the Work Needs, The Family Needs, The Other Needs That May Be Involved, And The Possible Implications Of The Various Alternatives - You'll Try To Come Up With The Best Solution Taking All Factors Into Consideration. We Are Limited But We Can Push Back The Borders Of Our Limitations.

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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The Deepest Hunger Of [a Child's] Human Heart Is To Be Understood, For Understanding Implicitly Affirms, Validates, Recognizes And Appreciates The Intrinsic Worth Of Another.

Being Proactive Is More Than Taking Initiative. It Is Recognizing That We Are Responsible For Our Own Choices And Have The Freedom To Choose Based On Principles And Values Rather Than On Moods Or Condition. Proactive People Are Agents Of Change And Choose Not To Be Victims, To Be Reactive, Or To Blame Others.

One Of The Most Important Ways To Manifest Integrity Is To Be Loyal To Those Who Are Not Present. In Doing So, We Build The Trust Of Those Who Are Present.

We May Find It Convenient To Live With The Illusion That Circumstances Or Other People Are Responsible For The Quality Of Our Lives, But The Reality Is That We Are Responsible-response-able-for Our Choices.

When I Started Teaching I Realized That I Had Never Had Such A Level Of Satisfaction And Such A Feeling Of Fulfillment And Sense Of Contribution. Just Like That. But, Usually It's More Cumulative, Slow, Evolutionary And Less Revolutionary.

If You Focus On Principles, You Empower Everyone Who Understands Those Principles To Act Without Constant Monitoring, Evaluating, Correcting, Or Controlling.

We Are The Creative Force Of Our Life, And Through Our Own Decisions Rather Than Our Conditions, If We Carefully Learn To Do Certain Things, We Can Accomplish Those Goals.

Almost Every Significant Breakthrough Is The Result Of A Courageous Break With Traditional Ways Of Thinking.

It's Better To Be Trusted Than To Be Liked.

The Key To Acting With Integrity Is To Simply Stop Playing The Game.

Interdependency Follows Independence.

Belief Is Another Word For Paradigm. It's A Synonymous. Your Belief Of The Way Things Are. Values Are The Way Things Should Be, It's A Paradigm Of The Way Things Should Be. Beliefs Are The Paradigms Of The Way Things Are.

The Key Is Taking Responsibility And Initiative, Deciding What Your Life Is About And Prioritizing Your Life Around The Most Important Things.

Effective Leadership Is The Only Competitive Advantage That Will Endure. That's Because Leadership Has Two Sides- What A Person Is Character And What A Person Does- Competence.

Our Behavior Is Governed By Principles. Living In Harmony With Them Brings Positive Consequences; Violating Them Brings Negative Consequences.

The More Involved You Are, The More Significant Your Learning Will Be.

We Can Act Instead Of Being Acted Upon.

When You Really Listen To Another Person From Their Point Of View, And Reflect Back To Them That Understanding, It's Like Giving Them Emotional Oxygen.

Trust Is The Glue In Relationships And Organizations

Look At The Weaknesses Of Others With Compassion, Not Accusation. It's Not What They're Not Doing Or Should Be Doing That's The Issue. The Issue Is Your Own Chosen Response To The Situation And What You Should Be Doing. If You Start To Think The Problem Is "out There," Stop Yourself. That Thought Is The Problem.

Unless You’re Continually Improving Your Skills, You’re Quickly Becoming Irrelevant.

In The Long Run, You Can Never Accomplish A Worthy End With An Unworthy Means.

Principles Are The Territory. Values Are Maps.

I Believe That A Life Of Integrity I The Most Fundamental Source Of Personal Worth. I Do Not Agree With The Popular Success Literature That Says That Self-esteem Is Primarily A Matter Of Mind Set, Of Attitude-that You Can Psych Yourself Into Peace Of Mind. Peace Of Mind Comes When Your Life Is In Harmony With True Principles And Values And In No Other Way.

Difference Is The Beginning Of Synergy.

When Your Happiness Comes Primarily From The Happiness Of Others, You Know You Have Moved From A 'me' Experience To A 'we' Experience. And The Whole Problem-solving And Opportunity-seizing Process Changes.

The Personal Power That Comes From Principle-centered Living Is The Power Of A Self-aware, Knowledgeable, Proactive Individual, Unrestricted By The Attitudes, Behaviors, And Actions Of Others Or By Many Of The Circumstances And Environmental Influences That Limit Other People.

Petty Things Become Unimportant When People Are Impassioned About A Purpose Higher Than Self.

During The First Few Minutes In Lift-off, The Astronauts Were Strictly Controlled And Were Powerfully Buffeted By The Forces Of Nature Struggling To Keep Them On Earth. This Is Somewhat Comparable To The Pull Of The Flesh When Our Alarm Goes Off Early In The Morning. Unless We Put "mind Over Mattress" And Carry Out The Resolves Made The Night Before, We Will Experience Our First Defeat That Day. Not Sufficient To Finish. Mission Aborted.

Love Is A Verb. Love – The Feeling – Is The Fruit Of Love, The Verb. So Love Her. Sacrifice. Listen To Her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm Her.

We Hear A Lot About Identity Theft When Someone Takes Your Wallet And Pretends To Be You And Uses Your Credit Cards. But The More Serious Identity Theft Is To Get Swallowed Up In Other People's Definition Of You.

In Many Situations Involving Service Recovery - The Problem Itself Became The Catalyst For The Creation Of Even Greater Trust As The Companies Took The Issues Head-on And Worked Through The Difficult Problem In A Way That Restored Confidence.

Most People Think Of Leadership As A Position And Therefore Don't See Themselves As Leaders.

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True Independence Of Character Empowers Us To Act Rather Than Be Acted Upon.

But Borrowing Strength Builds Weakness.

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My Behavior Is A Product Of My Own Conscious Choices Based On Principles, Rather Than A Product Of My Conditions, Based On Feelings.

Most People Struggle With Life Balance Simply Because They Haven't Paid The Price To Decide What Is Really Important To Them.

As You Live Your Values, Your Sense Of Identity, Integrity, Control, And Inner-directedness Will Infuse You With Both Exhilaration And Peace. You Will Define Yourself From Within, Rather Than By People's Opinions Or By Comparisons To Others.

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Valuing Differences Is What Really Drives Synergy. Do You Truly Value The Mental, Emotional, And Psychological Differences Among People? Or Do You Wish Everyone Would Just Agree With You So You Could All Get Along? Many People Mistake Uniformity For Unity; Sameness For Oneness. One Word--boring! Differences Should Be Seen As Strengths, Not Weaknesses. They Add Zest To Life.

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Your Systems Are Perfectly Designed To Get The Results That You Are Getting.

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When People Have A Real Sense Of Legacy, A Sense Of Mattering, A Sense Of Contribution, It Seems To Tap Into The Deepest Part Of Their Heart And Soul. It Brings Out The Best And Subordinates The Rest.

To Ignore The Unexpected (even If It Were Possible) Would Be To Live Without Opportunity, Spontaneity, And The Rich Moments Of Which "life" Is Made.

I Am Fortunate To Have A Very Helpful Team That Enables Me To Spend Time Doing Things That Are Important But Not Necessarily Urgent. People Who Have No Such Team Need To Also Make These Larger Decisions So That They Can Cheerfully Say No To That Which Is Urgent But Not Important.

We Are Product Of Neither Nature Nor Nurture; We Are A Product Of Choice, Because There Is Always A Space Between Stimulus And Response. As We Wisely Exercise Our Power To Choose Based On Principles, The Space Will Become Larger.

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.

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Someone Once Inquired Of A Far Eastern Zen Master, Who Had A Great Serenity And Peace About Him No Matter What Pressures He Faced, "how Do You Maintain That Serenity And Peace?" He Replied, "i Never Leave My Place Of Meditation." He Meditated Early In The Morning And For The Rest Of The Day, He Carried The Peace Of Those Moments With Him In His Mind And Heart.

When Trust Is High, The Dividend You Receive Is Like A Performance Multiplier, Elevating And Improving Every Dimension Of Your Organization And Your Life.... In A Company, High Trust Materially Improves Communication, Collaboration, Execution, Innovation, Strategy, Engagement, Partnering, And Relationships With All Stakeholders.

We Often Get So Busy "sawing" (producing Results) That We Forget To "sharpen Our Saw" (maintain Or Increase Our Capacity To Produce Results In The Future).

Nothing Is As Fast As The Speed Of Trust.

Nevertheless, The Only Way We Can Move From Where We Are Now To Where We Would Like To Be Is To Accept Where We Are Now.

Every Person In The Organization Must Change Inside Their Hearts And Minds, So That They Themselves Become Principle Centred.

Private Victory Precedes Public Victory. Algebra Comes Before Calculus.

...people Have Character Strength But They Lack Communication Skills, And That Undoubtedly Affects The Quality Of Relationships As Well.

A Personal Mission Statement Becomes The Dna For Every Other Decision We Make.

Decisions We Make

Live The Law Of Love. We Encourage Obedience To The Laws Of Life When We Live The Laws Of Love.

To Set And Work Toward Any Goal Is An Act Of Courage.

Acts Of Courage

If There's One Thing That's Certain In Business, It's Uncertainty.

Studies Have Identified A Significant 'skills Gap' Between What Students Are Currently Being Taught And The Skills Employers Are Seeking In Today's Global Economy. Our Children Must Be Better Prepared Than They Are Now To Meet The Future Challenges Of Our Ever-changing World.

If You Don't Let A Teacher Know What Level You Are -- By Asking A Question, Or Revealing Your Ignorance -- You Will Not Learn Or Grow

In This Knowledge-worker Age, It's Now Increasingly Tied To Doing Well In School So You Can Get Into Better Grad Schools So You Can Get Better Jobs - So The Pressure To Do Well Is Really High.

Integrity Is Conforming Reality To Our Words - In Other Words, Keeping Promises And Fulfilling Expectations.

Keeping Promises

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A Moment Of Choice Is A Moment Of Truth.

Moment Of Truth

At Some Time In Your Life, You Probably Had Someone Believe In You When You Didn't Believe In Yourself.

Personal Development

Empathic Listening Is So Powerful Because It Gives You Accurate Data To Work With. Instead Of Projecting Your Own Autobiography And Assuming Thoughts, Feelings, Motives And Interpretation, You're Dealing With The Reality Inside Another Person's Head And Heart. You're Listening To Understand. You're Focused On Receiving The Deep Communication Of Another Human Soul.

Employers And Business Leaders Need People Who Can Think For Themselves - Who Can Take Initiative And Be The Solution To Problems.

What We Are Communicates Far More Eloquently Than Anything We Say Or Do. There Are People We Trust Because We Know Their Character. Whether They're Eloquent Or Not, Whether They Have Human-relations Techniques Or Not, We Trust Them And Work With Them.

Peace Of Counscious Is Greater Than Peace Of Mind. Peace Of Mind Is More Externally Oriented. Peace Of Consciousness Is When You Know You Have Been Honest In All Your Business Dealings.

I Win The Private Victory When I Have Made My Mind Up And Commit To Live By Correct Principles And To Serve Worthy Purposes.

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Interpersonal Skills

Synergy Is The Highest Activity Of Life; It Creates New Untapped Alternatives; It Values And Exploits The Mental, Emotional, And Psychological Differences Between People.

The Key To Success Is Dedication To Life-long Learning.

Trust Is The Glue Of Life. It's The Most Essential Ingredient In Effective Communication. It's The Foundational Principle That Holds All Relationships.

You Can't Have The Fruits Without The Roots. It's The Principle Of Sequencing: Private Victories Proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery And Self-discipline Are The Foundation Of Good Relationships With Others.

To Touch The Soul Of Another Human Being Is To Walk On Holy Ground.

The More Authentic You Become, The More Genuine In Your Expression, Particularly Regarding Personal Experiences And Even Self-doubts, The More People Can Relate To Your Expression And The Safer It Makes Them Feel To Express Themselves. That Expression, In Turn, Feeds On The Other Person's Spirit, And Genuine Creative Empathy Takes Place, Producing New Insights And Learnings And A Sense Of Excitement And Adventure That Keeps The Process Going.

It's Not What People Do To Us That Hurts Us. In The Most Fundamental Sense, It Is Our Chosen Response To What They Do To Us That Hurts Us.

Technology And Tools Are Useful And Powerful When They Are Your Servant And Not Your Master.

It's Not Enough To Have Values Without Vision ; You Want To Be Good, But You Want To Be Good For Something. On The Other Hand, Vision Without Values Can Create A Hitler . An Empowering Mission Statement Deals With Both Character And Competence; What You Want To Be And What You Want To Do In Your Life.

If You Are An Effective Manager Of Your Self, Your Discipline Comes From Within; It Is A Function Of Your Independent Will.

Being Humble Does Not Mean Being Weak, Reticent, Or Self-effacing. It Means Recognizing Principle And Putting It Ahead Of Self. It Means Standing Firmly For Principle, Even In The Fact Of Opposition.

It's Not That We Ignore Our Weaknesses; Rather, We Make Our Weaknesses Irrelevant By Working Effectively With Others So That We Compensate For Our Weaknesses Through Their Strengths And They Compensate For Their Weaknesses Through Our Strengths.

Results Matter! They Matter To Your Credibility.

When We Say That Leadership Is A Choice, It Basically Means You Can Choose The Level Of Initiative You Want To Exercise In Response To The Question, ‘what Is The Best I Can Do Under The Given Circumstances?’

If We Do Not Teach Our Children, Societ Will. And They-and We-will Live With The Results.

I Know It Is Possible Not Only To Restore Trust But To Actually Enhance It. The Difficult Things That We Got Through With The Important People In Our Lives Can Become Fertile Ground For The Growth Of Enduring Trust - Trust That Is Actually Stronger Because It's Been Tested And Proved Through Challenge.

Anything Less Than A Conscious Commitment To The Important Is An Unconscious Commitment To The Unimportant.

If You Can Hire People Whose Passion Intersects With The Job, They Won't Require Any Supervision At All. They Will Manage Themselves Better Than Anyone Could Ever Manage Them. Their Fire Comes From Within, Not From Without. Their Motivation Is Internal, Not External.

When We Pick Up One End Of The Stick, We Pick Up The Other.

While You Can Think In Terms Of Efficiency In Dealing With Time, A Principle-centered Person Thinks In Terms Of Effectiveness In Dealing With People.

When We Value Correct Principles, We Have Truth - A Knowledge Of Things As They Are.

Always Treat Your Employees Exactly As You Want Them To Treat Your Best Customers.

Feedback Often Tells You More About The Person Who Is Giving It Than About You.

Nothing Is As Fast As The Speed Of Trust. Nothing Is As Fulfilling As A Relationship Of Trust. Nothing Is As Inspiring As An Offering Of Trust. Nothing Is As Profitable As The Economics Of Trust. Nothing Has More Influence Than A Reputation Of Trust.

Without Trust, The Best We Can Do Is Compromise.

Accountability Breeds Response-ability.

The First Principle Of Ethical Power Is Purpose. By Purpose, I Don't Mean Your Objective Or Intention-something Toward Which You Are Always Striving. Purpose Is Something Bigger. It Is The Picture You Have Of Yourself-the Kind Of Person You Want To Be Or The Kind Of Life You Want To Lead.

It's Better To Be Humbled By The Word Than By The Force Of Circumstances.

Stop Setting Goals. Goals Are Pure Fantasy Unless You Have A Specific Plan To Achieve Them.

Values Determine Behavior; Principles Determine The Consequences Of Behavior.

If You Want To Achieve Your Highest Aspirations And Overcome Your Greatest Challenges, Identify And Apply The Principle Or Natural Law That Governs The Results You Seek. How We Apply A Principle Will Vary Greatly And Will Be Determined By Our Unique Strengths, Talents, And Creativity, But, Ultimately, Success In Any Endeavor Is Always Derived From Acting In Harmony With The Principles To Which The Success Is Tied.

Private Victories Precede Public Victories.

Keeping Promises

Reducing Children To A Test Score Is The Worst Form Of Identity Theft We Could Commit In Schools.

An Effective Goal Focuses Primarily On Results Rather Than Activity. It Identifies Where You Want To Be, And, In The Process, Helps You Determine Where You Are. It Gives You Important Information On How To Get There, And It Tells You When You Have Arrived. It Unifies Your Efforts And Energy. It Gives Meaning And Purpose To All You Do.

The Place To Begin Building Any Relationship Is Inside Ourselves, Inside Our Circle Of Influence, Our Own Character.

Independent Will Is Our Capacity To Act. It Gives Us The Power To Transcend Our Paradigms, To Swim Upstream, To Rewrite Our Scripts, To Act Based On Principle Rather Than Reacting Based On Emotion Or Circumstance.

Interdependence Is A Higher Value Than Independence

Whether Or Not We Belong To A Church Or Service Organization Or Have A Job That Provides Meaningful Service Opportunities, Not A Day Goes By That We Can't At Least Serve One Other Human Being By Making Deposits Of Unconditional Love.

Unconditional Love

When You Make A Commitment To Yourself, Do So With The Clear Understanding That You're Pledging Your Integrity.

Management Is Formal Authority Given From Above. Leadership Is Moral Authority Given From Below And All Around.

"you Can Buy A Person's Hand, But You Can't Buy Their Heart. His Heart Is Where His Enthusiasm, His Loyalty Is. You Can Buy His Back, But You Can't Buy His Brain. That's Where His Creativity Is, His Ingenuity, His His Resourcefulness."

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

Interpersonal Skills

People And Their Managers Are Working So Hard To Be Sure Things Are Done Right, That They Have Hardly Have Time To Decide If They Are Doing The Right Things.

We Exhaust Ourselves More From The Tension And The Consequences Of Internal Disharmony Than From Hard, Unremitting Work.

We Can't Live Without Eating, But We Don't Live To Eat.

Sometimes Poor Behavior Is Simply Bad Execution Of Good Intent.

When People Seriously Undertake To Identify What Really Matters Most To Them In Their Lives, What They Really Want To Be And Do, They Become Very Reverent. They Start To Think In Larger Terms Than Today And Tomorrow.

If We Want To Make A Change In Our Lives, We Should First Focus On Our Personal Attitudes And Behaviors.

In Our Personal Lives, If We Do Not Develop Our Own Self-awareness And Become Responsible For First Creations, We Empower Other People And Circumstances To Shape Our Lives By Default.

Seek To Understand Rather Than Be Understood.

I Keep My Phone Number Unlisted And Rely On My Associates To Handle All Voice Mail, E-mail, Faxes.

Efficient Management Without Effective Leadership Is, As One Individual Phrased, It, "like Straightening Deck Chairs On The Titanic".

Executives Need To Understand The Economic Benefits Of Trust Dividend, Especially When The Behavior Is Real, Not Artificially Or Superficially Created As Pr To Manipulate Trust.

I Think That [respect For People] Is Of Profound Importance Because It Means You Are Caring And You Trust Them To Do The Right Thing.

People Can't Live With Change If There's Not A Changeless Core Inside Them.

People Are Social Beings And Want Interaction And Social Learning Is The Primary Form Of Learning, Just As Word Of Mouth Advertising Is The Highest Form Of Advertising.

How Different Our Lives Are When We Really Know What Is Deeply Important To Us, And Keeping That Picture In Mind, We Manage Ourselves Each Day To Be And To Do What Really Matters Most.

The Best Way To Develop Courage Is To Set A Goal And Achieve It, Make A Promise And Keep It.

The Human Will Is An Amazing Thing. Time After Time, It Has Triumphed Against Unbelievable Odds.

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

As We Make And Keep Commitments, Even Small Commitments, We Begin To Establish An Inner Integrity That Gives Us The Awareness Of Self-control And The Courage And Strength To Accept More Of The Responsibility For Our Own Lives. By Making And Keeping Promises To Ourselves And Others, Little By Little, Our Honor Becomes Greater Than Our Moods.

The Core Of Any Family Is What Is Changeless, What Is Going To Be There──shared Vision And Values.

Synergy Is Better Than My Way Or Your Way. It's Our Way.

If You're Proactive, You Don't Have To Wait For Circumstances Or Other People To Create Perspective Expanding Experiences. You Can Consciously Create Your Own.

Whether We Are Aware Of It Or Not, Whether We Are In Control Of It Or Not, There Is A First Creation To Every Part Of Our Lives. We Are Either The Second Creation Of Our Own Proactive Design, Or We Are The Second Creation Of Other People's Agendas, Of Circumstances, Or Of Past Habits.

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