"Until we take how we see ourselves (and……" — Stephen Covey
"Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective."
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556 Quotes by Stephen Covey
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I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with…
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If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of…
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not…
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Beginners are many; finishers are few.
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
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Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.
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Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we…
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A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,…
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers,…
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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