Stephen R. Covey citations

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“How you treat the one reveals how you
regard the many, because everyone is ultimately a one.”

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.”

“Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.”

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.”

“Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.”

“If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent.”

“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”

“To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness.”

“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”

“When air is charged with emotions, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.”

“I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.”

“My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.”

“The only person I know, is the person I want to be”

“people have character strength but they lack communication skills, and that undoubtedly affects the quality of relationships as well.”

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are -- or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.”

“Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.”

“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”

“The core of any family is what is changeless, what is going to be there──shared vision and values.”

“The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

“We not not our feelings. We are not our moods. We not even our thoughts.”

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.”

“If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.”

“Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us.”

“Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.”

“we're responsible for our own lives.”

“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 serious identity theft is to get swallowed up in other people's definition of you.”