“My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Through real-life stories, Kristin Kaufman illustrates the core idea of being present in the moment and opening oneself up to new ideas… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“When you live out of your memory, you focus on the past. When you live out of your imagination, you focus on… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Think about taking a trip on an airplane. Before taking off, the pilot has a very clear destination in mind, which hopefully… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“wife and children any more. I’m not even sure I know myself and what’s really important to me. I’ve had to ask… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Renewing our social/emotional dimension does not take time in the same sense that renewing the other dimensions does. We can do it… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Again, you simply can’t think efficiency with people. You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things. I’ve tried to be “efficient”… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“This power of choice means that we are not merely a product of our past or of our genes; we are not… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Effective people lead their lives and manage their relationships around principles; ineffective people attempt to manage their time around priorities and their… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“What lies behind us is nothing compared to what lies within us and ahead of us.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Love is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self, like a mother bringing a newborn into the world. If you… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value. They’re fundamental.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“So I recommend reading literature, such as the inspiring biography of Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity, and seeing movies like Chariots of Fire… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Just as faith without works is dead, so also works without faith.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“FRIEND/ENEMY CENTEREDNESS. Young people are particularly, though certainly not exclusively, susceptible to becoming friend-centered. Acceptance and belonging to a peer group can become almost… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“As a principle-centered person, you see things differently. And because you see things differently, you think differently, you act differently. Because you have a… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.” — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
“Breaking deeply imbedded habitual tendencies such as procrastination, impatience, criticalness, or selfishness that violate basic principles of human effectiveness involves more than a little… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image