Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

Use your R and I!" (resourcefulness and initiative).

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether

We discovered that the nature of the visualization is very important. If you visualize the wrong thing, you'll produce the wrong thing.

the very problem created the opportunity to build a deep relationship that empowered us to work together as a strong complementary team.

The inside-out approach says that private victories

Manage from the left; lead from the right.

Effectiveness lies in the balance. Excessive focus on P results in ruined health, worn-out machines, depleted bank accounts, and broken relationships.

In your planner, there should be a place for your personal mission statement so that you can constantly refer to it. There also needs to be a place for your roles and for both short- and long-term goals.

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.

We are responsible for our own effectiveness, for our own happiness, and ultimately, I would say, for most of our circumstances.

lo que somos puede transmitirse con una elocuencia mucho mayor que cualquier cosa que digamos o hagamos.

Proactive people can carry their own weather with them.

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.

As an interdependent person, I have the opportunity to share myself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and I have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings. Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make. Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don't have the character to do it; they don't own enough of themselves.

entre el estímulo y la respuesta, el ser humano tiene la libertad interior de elegir.

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not do is really not to know.

At one seminar where I was speaking on the concept of proactivity, a man came up and said, "Stephen, I like what you're saying. But every situation is so different. Look at my marriage. I'm really worried. My wife and I just don't have the same feelings for each other we used to have. I guess I just don't love her anymore and she doesn't love me. What can I do?" "The feeling isn't there anymore?" I asked.

Remind yourself of the gap between stimulus and response. Make a commitment to yourself to exercise your freedom to choose.

Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values that all reality hinges

The wisdom and guidance that accompany principle-centered living come from correct maps, from the way things really are, have been, and will be. Correct maps enable us to clearly see where we want to go and how to get there. We can make our decisions using the correct data that will make their implementation possible and meaningful.

And if I do this, day after day my behavior will change. Instead of living out of the scripts given to me by my own parents or by society or by genetics or my environment, I will be living out of the script I have written from my own self-selected value system.

What matters most gets buried under layers of pressing problems, immediate concerns, and outward behaviors. I become reactive.

Determine whether it is a direct, indirect, or no control problem.

Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.