Quotes by Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey

Stephen R. Covey

American educator, author and businessman

Lived from: 1932 - 2012

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 24 october 1932 Died: 16 july 2012

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  • To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
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  • You can't live principals you can't understand.
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  • Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
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  • Accountability breeds response-ability.
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  • I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.
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  • If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
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  • Interdependency follows independence.
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  • Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
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  • Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character…
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  • People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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  • Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.
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  • Priority is a function of context.
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  • Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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  • The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
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  • We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
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  • We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
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  • We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
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  • We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
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  • We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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  • 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. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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