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Understood Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Seek to understand rather than be understood.
- The real beginning of influence comes as others sense you are being influenced by them - when they feel understood by you - that you…
- Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological…
- If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be…
- Seek to understand before you seek to be understood.
- When we listen with the intent to understand others, rather than with the intent to reply, we begin true communication and relationship building. Opportunities to…
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
- Habit 1: Be Proactive Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind Habit 3: Put First Things First Habit 4: Think Win/Win Habit 5: Seek…
- What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.
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- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- 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
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and is putting… — Javier Bardem
- Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that… — Roland Barthes
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
- Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others. — Martha Beck
- Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that… — Theodore Bikel
- I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male… — Jacqueline Bisset
- Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood. — Jacqueline Bisset