When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When a person has access to both the intuitive, creative and visual right brain, and the analytical, logical, verbal left brain, then… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
While you can think in terms of efficiency in dealing with time, a principle-centered person thinks in terms of effectiveness in dealing… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You will never be able to truly step inside another person, to see the world as he sees it, until you develop… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
What is important to another person must be as important to you as the other person is to you — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
People with a scarcity mentality think there is only so much in the world to go around. It's as if they see… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The more authentic you become, the more genuine in your expression, particularly regarding personal experiences and even self-doubts, the more people can… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Too many vacations that last too long, too many movies, too much TV, too much video game playing - too much undisciplined… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
How does humility manifest itself in leadership and in life? A humble person is more concerned about what is right than about… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In effective personal leadership, visualization and affirmation techniques emerge naturally out of a foundation of well thought through purposes and principles that… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Effective leadership is the only competitive advantage that will endure. That's because leadership has two sides- what a person is character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The first principle of ethical power is Purpose. By purpose, I don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are always… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
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… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
In a very real sense, there are only two roles in organisations: customers and suppliers. Everybody functions simultaneously in both roles, whether inside or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Most people define greatness through wealth and popularity and position in the corner office. But what I call everyday greatness comes from character and… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
