Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and
he will become as he can and should be.


Stephen R. Covey

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Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independ...
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, non...
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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...
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Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it ...
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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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