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Work Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives…
- 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…
- At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why most organisations fail to draw…
- 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…
- When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion-that rises out of a great need in the world that you…
- Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together.
- If we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want…
- Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
- If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.
- We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work.
- Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.
- To set and work toward any goal is an act of courage.
- Vital to quality of life is the ability to work together, learn from each other, and help each other grow.
- Habit 7 is taking the time to sharpen the saw. By renewing the four dimensions of your nature - physical, spiritual, mental and social/emotional, you…
- People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because they are confined to the capacities of the boss and reflect both…
- If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to…
- There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
- Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
- The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
- Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle