What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust because we know their character. Whether they're eloquent or not, whether they have human-relations techniques or not, we trust them and work with them.


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STEPHEN COVEY
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. Pe...
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Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will...
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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, ...
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It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop the proactive capacity to handle the extra...
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You can't live principals you can't understand.
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Priority is a function of context.
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To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even g...
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Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harv...
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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
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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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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic p...
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it...
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Ps...
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective ...
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It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside.
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My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake u...
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I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to b...
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One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.
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The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.
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Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
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Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder...
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Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell p...
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The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can beco...
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
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We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if ...
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When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that und...
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Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It'...
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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...
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Leadership is a choice, not a position.
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The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing y...
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The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
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When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might ...
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There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, trea...
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Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.
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