Stephen Covey Quotes

Unless you’re influenced by my uniqueness, I’m not going to be influenced by your advice. So if you want to be really effective in the habit of interpersonal communication, you cannot do it with technique alone. You have to build the skills of empathic listening on a base of character that inspires openness and trust. And you have to build the Emotional Bank Accounts that create a commerce between hearts.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It’s not what they’re not doing or should be doing that’s the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is “out there,” stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.

Wisdom is synergy of mind and heart.

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

In the words of William George Jordan, “Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil — the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.

Animals do not possess this ability. We call it “self-awareness” or the ability to think about your very thought process.

When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.

Other parts of the personality approach were clearly manipulative, even deceptive, encouraging people to use techniques to get other people to like them, or to fake interest in the hobbies of others to get out of them what they wanted, or to use the “power look,” or to intimidate their way through life.

In fact, “grow or die” is the moral imperative of all existence.

"Як відзначила Елеонора Рузвельт: "Без вашої згоди ніхто не може вас образити". А за словами Ґанді, "у нас не можуть відібрати самоповагу, якщо ми самі її не віддамо". Наш добровільний дозвіл, наша згода на те, що з нами відбувається, завдає нам набагато більшого болю, ніж власне події."

Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment.

Family-centered parents do not have the emotional freedom, the power, to raise their children with their ultimate welfare truly in mind. If they derive their own security from the family, their need to be popular with their children may override the importance of a long-term investment in their children’s growth and development. Or they may be focused on the proper and correct behavior of the moment. Any behavior that they consider improper threatens their security. They become upset, guided by the emotions of the moment, spontaneously reacting to the immediate concern rather than the long-term growth and development of the child. They may yell or scream. They may overreact and punish out of bad temper. They tend to love their children conditionally, making them emotionally dependent or counterdependent and rebellious.