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Understanding Quotes by Stephen Covey
- When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.
- Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
- 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…
- To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so…
- You can't live principals you can't understand.
- To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice)…
- When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
- If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.
More Understanding Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. — Isaac Asimov
- An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment. — David Attenborough
- I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own. — Margaret Atwood
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. — Marcus Aurelius
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
- Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already… — Richard Bach
- The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and… — Michele Bachmann
- The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding. — Francis Bacon