More Quotes by Stephen Covey
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech . What we say may be less important than how we say it.
See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.
Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what's urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.
Little kindness and courtesies are so important. In relationships, the little things are the big things.
When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
You don't see the world as it is, you see it according to who you are.
