Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects. Stephen Covey More Quotes by Stephen Covey More Quotes From Stephen Covey To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction. Stephen Covey understanding mind mean Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. Stephen Covey teamwork appreciation inspirational It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us. Stephen Covey hurt fundamentals people The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values. Stephen Covey essence feelings people Response-ability is the ABILITY to choose our response to any circumstance or condition. Stephen Covey ability circumstances motivational I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow. Stephen Covey teach treats people If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication. Stephen Covey communication keys healing How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most. Stephen Covey love-life adversity inspirational Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic Stephen Covey light leadership character You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. Stephen Covey reap shortcuts The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different. Stephen Covey sowing law-of-attraction different Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds. Stephen Covey leadership heart believe You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them. Stephen Covey great-things busy mistake Unless people feel that they are accepted and that they have a right to express their feelings without fear of embarrassment or ridicule, all they will do is react and rebel and struggle for their identity. Stephen Covey struggle motivational people When parents see their children's problems as opportunities to build the relationship instead of as negative, burdensome irritations, it totally changes the nature of parent-child interaction. Parents become more willing, even excited, about deeply understanding and helping their children. . . . This paradigm is powerful in business as well. Stephen Covey family change relationship We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles. Stephen Covey overcoming challenges character Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important Stephen Covey inspiration change courage We don't invent our missions, we detect them. Stephen Covey missions All things are created twice; first mentally; then physically. The key to creativity is to begin with the end in mind, with a vision and a blue print of the desired result. Stephen Covey creativity keys blue Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. Stephen Covey freedom encouragement change
