Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way. Stephen Covey More Quotes by Stephen Covey More Quotes From Stephen Covey If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way. Stephen Covey psych over-you way To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions. Stephen Covey perspective inspiration change Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects. Stephen Covey synergy collaboration individual As people enable themselves to achieve one or two goals for the year that are most meaningful, they will find power, peace of mind, and confidence in their abilities because they have achieved what they set out to accomplish. Your commitment to achieving what matters most will become the foundation for tremendous accomplishments and contributions. You will become the change you seek to make. Stephen Covey what-matters meaningful commitment You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into! Stephen Covey interpersonal-skills problem way We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. Stephen Covey change responsibility animal ...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply. Stephen Covey church believe people Interdependence is a higher value than independence Stephen Covey love relationship friendship The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. Stephen Covey struggle challenges men They [Nazi captors]had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he [Viktor Frankl] had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options. Stephen Covey viktor-frankl liberty exercise We can't live without eating, but we don't live to eat. Stephen Covey 7-habits i-believe eating It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later. Stephen Covey purpose want thinking There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature. Stephen Covey inspiration reading mind By centering our lives on correct principles and creating a balanced focus between doing and increasing our ability to do, we become empowered to the task of creating effective useful and peaceful lives. Stephen Covey peaceful creating focus The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act Stephen Covey source way thinking The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people. Stephen Covey self attitude inspirational Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it. Stephen Covey honesty happiness thinking Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure. Stephen Covey effectiveness adventure people Involve people in the problem and work out the solution together. Stephen Covey work-out leadership people Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing. Stephen Covey possessing genuine needs
