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Up Quotes by Stephen Covey
- People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to…
- 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 already…
- 'In empathic listening you listen with your ears, but you also, and more importantly, listen with you eyes and with your heart. You listen for…
- Be sure that, as you scramble up the ladder of success, it is leaning against the right building.
- When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.
- It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder…
- As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and…
- The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, 'Wrong jungle!' ... Busy, efficient producers and managers often…
- 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…
- "If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a…
- In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.
- If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We…
- It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of…
- We hear a lot about identity theft when someone takes your wallet and pretends to be you and uses your credit cards. But the more…
- How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives…
- It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the business of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder…
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- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong