Seeing things from a different point of view can help us understand why other people act the way the...
SEAN COVEY Stop being a critic and be a light; don't be a judge, be a model. I think we are far too critica...
SEAN COVEY Paradigms are like glasses. When you have incomplete paradigms about yourself or life in general, it...
SEAN COVEY You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will,...
SEAN COVEY Instead of playing to win, I was playing not to lose. It reminds me of the story I once heard about ...
SEAN COVEY Having the courage to say no when all your friends are saying yes is one of the most difficult thing...
SEAN COVEY You should see my baby pictures. My cheeks hung off my face like water balloons. You can imagine how...
SEAN COVEY Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
SEAN COVEY These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a ...
SEAN COVEY Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundatio...
SEAN COVEY Some of the more popular life-centers for teens include Friends, Stuff, Enemies, Self, and Work. The...
SEAN COVEY You shouldn't feel guilty about taking time for yourself. Every so often, everyone needs to give...
SEAN COVEY The average teen today spends about 35 hours a week in front of a screen of some kind: iPod, movie, ...
SEAN COVEY One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
SEAN COVEY I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
SEAN COVEY Ask any successful person, and most will tell you that they had a person who believed in them... a t...
SEAN COVEY We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
SEAN COVEY All the events of your past have formed a lens, or paradigm, through which you see the world. And si...
SEAN COVEY Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly...
SEAN COVEY Honesty is always the best policy, even when it's not the trend.
SEAN COVEY Although I'm a retired teenager, I remember what it was like to be one. I could have sworn I was...
SEAN COVEY Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat...
STEPHEN COVEY Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, ...
STEPHEN COVEY Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we...
STEPHEN COVEY A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen...
STEPHEN COVEY Listen with your eyes for feelings.
STEPHEN COVEY Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.
STEPHEN COVEY Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
STEPHEN COVEY Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.
STEPHEN COVEY Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply.
STEPHEN COVEY Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
STEPHEN COVEY We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.
STEPHEN COVEY Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative an...
STEPHEN COVEY The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organiz...
STEPHEN COVEY Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
STEPHEN COVEY Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit ...
STEPHEN COVEY While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
STEPHEN COVEY People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability t...
STEPHEN COVEY As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from oth...
STEPHEN COVEY Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious ...
STEPHEN COVEY It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out ...
STEPHEN COVEY The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; ...
STEPHEN COVEY The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN COVEY Live out of your imagination, not your history.
STEPHEN COVEY In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independ...
STEPHEN COVEY You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non...
STEPHEN COVEY People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. Pe...
STEPHEN COVEY Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will...
STEPHEN COVEY Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, ...
STEPHEN COVEY It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extra...
STEPHEN COVEY You can't live principals you can't understand.
STEPHEN COVEY Priority is a function of context.
STEPHEN COVEY To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even g...
STEPHEN COVEY Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
STEPHEN COVEY Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEY The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
STEPHEN COVEY The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic p...
STEPHEN COVEY Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it...
STEPHEN COVEY Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Ps...
STEPHEN COVEY If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective ...
STEPHEN COVEY It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.
STEPHEN COVEY My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake u...
STEPHEN COVEY I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
STEPHEN COVEY Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to b...
STEPHEN COVEY One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
STEPHEN COVEY The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
STEPHEN COVEY Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
STEPHEN COVEY Accountability breeds response-ability.
STEPHEN COVEY Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
STEPHEN COVEY Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell p...
STEPHEN COVEY The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can beco...
STEPHEN COVEY If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
STEPHEN COVEY We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if ...
STEPHEN COVEY When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that und...
STEPHEN COVEY Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It'...
STEPHEN COVEY If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary chang...
STEPHEN COVEY Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it ...
STEPHEN COVEY When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy repl...
STEPHEN COVEY Leadership is a choice, not a position.
STEPHEN COVEY The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing y...
STEPHEN COVEY The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
STEPHEN COVEY When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might ...
STEPHEN COVEY There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
STEPHEN COVEY Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, trea...
STEPHEN COVEY Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
STEPHEN COVEY You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions ...
STEPHEN COVEY If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting.
STEPHEN COVEY People and organizations don't grow much without delegation and completed staff work because the...
STEPHEN COVEY Have a separate electronic communications policy, ... Let your employees know what you expect for co...
ANNE COVEY You've got people who communicate by touching, ... We don't look at that as bad except for those peo...
ANNE COVEY This is probably one of the most difficult areas of the law because we all come from different backg...
ANNE COVEY I don't advise it,
ANNE COVEY They know the difference between right and wrong and what's acceptable and not acceptable, and they ...
ANNE COVEY They still don't feel comfortable, and they haven't been given the tools to know how to direct the e...
ANNE COVEY You look at the Civil Rights Act, ... It was passed in 1964 and we still have race discrimination. W...
ANNE COVEY A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve int...
STEPHEN COVEY In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degr...
STEPHEN COVEY You can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.
STEPHEN COVEY It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than ...
STEPHEN COVEY The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
STEPHEN COVEY Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the p...
STEPHEN COVEY Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being...
STEPHEN COVEY The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's b...
STEPHEN COVEY If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the...
STEPHEN COVEY But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role o...
STEPHEN COVEY Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying tal...
STEPHEN COVEY Leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it ...
STEPHEN COVEY The way we see the problem is the problem.
STEPHEN COVEY If there is no gardener there is no garden.
STEPHEN COVEY Seek first to understand, and then to be understood.
STEPHEN COVEY One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In...
STEPHEN COVEY We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to...
STEPHEN COVEY We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. An...
STEPHEN COVEY Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system.
STEPHEN COVEY Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various par...
STEPHEN COVEY Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb.
STEPHEN COVEY We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
STEPHEN COVEY An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportu...
STEPHEN COVEY For me, the essence of the great American Dream is spiritual. I believe that our Constitution is ins...
STEPHEN COVEY In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get ...
STEPHEN COVEY If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find y...
STEPHEN COVEY I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.
STEPHEN COVEY An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportu...
STEPHEN COVEY When the external factors over which one has no control in a way start to become negative, it starts...
STEPHEN COVEY Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a hu...
STEPHEN COVEY When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal...
STEPHEN COVEY It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.
STEPHEN COVEY Mind over mattress.
STEPHEN COVEY The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
STEPHEN COVEY Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, ...
JOY COVEY The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced b...
STEPHEN COVEY Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
STEPHEN COVEY They got in the porch area and broke the window to the main house. But they did not get in because t...
CARL COVEY Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
STEPHEN COVEY The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo L...
JOY COVEY There are only two lasting bequests we can give our children... one is roots, the other wings.
STEPHEN COVEY Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel ...
STEPHEN COVEY In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.
STEPHEN COVEY It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books...
STEPHEN COVEY There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on edu...
STEPHEN COVEY The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal...
STEPHEN COVEY (With people) if you want to save time, dont be efficient. With people, slow is fast and fast is slo...
STEPHEN COVEY Once you have a clear picture of your priorities that is values, goals, and high leverage activities...
STEPHEN COVEY As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity th...
STEPHEN COVEY The main thing is to keep the main thing - Main thing
STEPHEN COVEY I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions
–STEPHEN COVEY The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic p...
STEPHEN COVEY The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but wha...
STEPHEN COVEY In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independ...
STEPHEN COVEY Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Ps...
STEPHEN COVEY Interdependency follows independence.
STEPHEN COVEY Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will...
STEPHEN COVEY Private victories precede public victories.
STEPHEN COVEY The ability to manage well doesn't make much difference if you're not even in the right jungle.
STEPHEN COVEY Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
STEPHEN COVEY Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don't think it's necessarily treating people like things.
STEPHEN COVEY Well, they're going to be back out again. I?m going to see them again. Something needs to be done in...
CARL COVEY We become what we repeatedly do.
STEPHEN COVEY The solutions to our problems are and always will be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident pr...
STEPHEN COVEY The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
STEPHEN COVEY Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
STEPHEN COVEY There's strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the press...
STEPHEN COVEY How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be ...
STEPHEN COVEY Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term th...
STEPHEN COVEY Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school...
STEPHEN COVEY Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.
STEPHEN COVEY Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriv...
STEPHEN COVEY Man, I just feel blessed... I was in a situation where the only way I could come out of it was by pu...
SEAN COMBS There are doctors who help people who have done bad things; there are lawyers who defend bad people....
SEAN SPICER Some age, others mature.
SEAN CONNERY I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.'
SEAN YOUNG I don't really like doing interviews.
SEAN YOUNG I have a lot of supporters.
SEAN YOUNG Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.
SEAN YOUNG I don't particularly think marriage is a sane thing.
SEAN YOUNG I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.
SEAN YOUNG If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to a...
SEAN YOUNG Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't wan...
SEAN YOUNG If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't...
SEAN YOUNG You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice thing...
SEAN YOUNG I'm just into having fun, because I went through some bad years that really depressed me and mad...
SEAN YOUNG There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my ...
SEAN YOUNG The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.
SEAN YOUNG I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my o...
BIG SEAN I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want t...
SEAN HANNITY I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed v...
BIG SEAN Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.
SEAN O'FAOLAIN People from all walks of life and all over the world look at me and know my humble beginnings and kn...
SEAN COMBS I don't want to paint everybody with the same broad brush. But I do think that the majority of f...
SEAN SPICER For small community banks and credit unions, like those in Central and Northern Wisconsin, the hundr...
SEAN DUFFY Working in a garden calms me down.
SEAN BEAN Well, look at all of these summer blockbusters. You can't help but laugh a little, because you&#...
SEAN PENN There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it crea...
SEAN O'FAOLAIN By the time my first album was out, I had been out in Jamaica three or four years, but I had hits ou...
SEAN PAUL I do not want faith, I want knowledge. I do not want hope, I want truth.
SEAN BALTZ I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and the...
SEAN ASTIN Being from New York, there's three things you know about Hollywood. You know about the Hollywood...
SEAN COMBS There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion...
SEAN O'CASEY Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essent...
SEAN O'CASEY The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's ...
SEAN O'CASEY