Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

no se puede pensar en términos de eficiencia cuando se trata de personas. Se piensa en términos de efectividad con la gente y de eficiencia con las cosas.

Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It doesn't begin and end with the writing of a personal mission statement. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.

we will define a habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

There's no way to go for a Win in our own lives if we don't even know, in a deep sense, what constitutes a Win—what is, in fact, harmonious with our innermost values.

The pleasure-centered person, too soon bored with each succeeding level of "fun," constantly cries for more and more. So the next new pleasure has to be bigger and better, more exciting, with a bigger "high." A person in this state becomes almost entirely narcissistic, interpreting all of life in terms of the pleasure it provides to the self here and now.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits

Many people wait for something to happen or someone to take care of them. But people who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems, not problems themselves, who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary, consistent with correct principles, to get the job done.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

The person who is truly effective has the humility and reverence to recognize his own perceptual limitations and to appreciate the rich resources available through interaction with the hearts and minds of other human beings.

it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

a goal of a book a month, then a book every two weeks, then a book a week. "The person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read.

The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility.

Leí ese párrafo una y otra vez. Básicamente contenía la idea simple de que existe una brecha o un espacio entre el estímulo y la respuesta, y de que en el empleo de ese espacio está la clave de nuestro crecimiento y nuestra felicidad.

Satisfied needs do not motivate. It's only the unsatisfied need that motivates. Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival—to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.

Integrity includes but goes beyond honesty. Honesty is telling the truth—in other words, conforming our words to reality. Integrity is conforming reality to our words—in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.

I am convinced we will discover and rediscover the truth of T. S. Eliot's observation: We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.

We decided to relax and get out of his way and let his own personality emerge.

A serious problem with reactive language is that it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. • • • Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

My friend," I said, "you can't talk your way out of problems you behave yourself into.

if you were to fault yourself in one of three areas, which would it be: (1) the inability to prioritize; (2) the inability or desire to organize around those priorities; or (3) the lack of discipline to execute around them, to stay with your priorities and organization?

across—"the ability to express one's own feelings and convictions balanced with consideration for the thoughts and feelings of others.

Through deep thought and the exercise of faith and prayer, we began to see our son in terms of his own uniqueness.

Affirmation and visualization are forms of programming, and we must be certain that we do not submit ourselves to any programming that is not in harmony with our basic center or that comes from sources centered on money-making, self interest, or anything other than correct principles.