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Term Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three…
- People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that…
- Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
- 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.
- As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.
- Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between…
- Innocent pleasures in moderation can provide relaxation for the body and mind and can foster family and other relationships. But pleasure, per se, offers no…
- If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in…
- Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants,…
- Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.
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- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular… — Charles Babbage
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- The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. — Lord Acton
- The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that are based… — Mahmoud Abbas
- This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated, can come… — Mikhail Bakunin
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