Quotes from Stephen Covey

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

We must never be too busy to take time to sharpen the saw.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

The human will is an amazing thing. Time after time, it has triumphed against unbelievable odds.

Empathy takes time, and efficiency is for things, not people.

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.

You are dependent if you allow the weaknesses of other people to ruin your emotional life!

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

Find your voice, and inspire others to find theirs. Don't ignore that longing to make a difference.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you've got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Priority is a function of context.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Time management is a misnomer, the challenge is to manage ourselves.

People and their managers are working so hard to be sure things are done right, that they have hardly have time to decide if they are doing the right things.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Trust is central to an economy that works.

Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

As you begin to think more in terms of importance, you begin to see time differently.