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Stephen Richards Covey, né le 24 octobre 1932 à Salt Lake City et mort le 16 juillet 2012 à Idaho Falls, est un auteur, homme d'affaires et conférencier américain. Il était professeur à l'école de commerce Jon M. Huntsman de l'université d'État de l'Utah au moment de sa mort causée par une chute en VTT.

Son livre le plus connu est Les Sept Habitudes des gens efficaces publié en France sous le titre Les 7 Habitudes des gens qui réussissent.

✵ 24. octobre 1932 – 16. juillet 2012
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Stephen R. Covey: Citations en anglais

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 12
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, in The Phenomenon of Man [Le Phénomène Humain] (1955); Covey quotes this in Living the 7 Habits : Stories of Courage and Inspiration (2000), p. 47
Variant: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
A paraphrase of De Chardin's statement which has also become misattributed to Covey.
Misattributed
Variante: We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004), by Alex Pattakos, p. x
This statement has also been attributed to James Neil Hollingsworth (AKA: Ambrose Redmoon) in an article entitled "No Peaceful Warriors!" for Gnosis Magazine #21, in 1991.
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

As quoted in Wake-up Calls : You Don't Have to Sleepwalk through your Life, Love, or Career! (1992) by Eric Allenbaugh, p. 65

“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“It comes from within.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”

Stephen R. Covey livre The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

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