“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.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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American educator, author, businessman and motivational spe… 1932–2012

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