Stephen Covey
United States
24 Oct 1932 // 16 Jul 2012
Educator, Author, Businessman
24 Oct 1932 // 16 Jul 2012
Educator, Author, Businessman
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If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That's when you can get more creative in solving problems.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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