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More Quotes by Stephen Covey
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.
The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.
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.
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.
Live your life by a compass, not a clock.
Make small commitments and keep them. Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic. Be a part of the solution, not the problem.
Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.
The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.
