Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

He pushed with questions, trying to get a handle on the science and methods needed to solve some of the most intractable problems, ending one exchange with a friend with a comment along the lines of "I need to learn more about phosphates" (Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood). And

respecting the proactive nature of other people, we provide them with at least one clear, undistorted reflection from the social mirror.

Mus skaudina ne skaud?s ?vykiai, bet m?s? reakcija ? tuos ?vykius.

Habits are patterns of behavior composed of three overlapping components: knowledge, attitude, and skill.

literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

Cuando reconocemos los guiones inefectivos, los paradigmas incorrectos o incompletos que están en nuestro interior, podemos empezar a reescribir proactivamente nuestros guiones

Perhaps I superimposed a higher-level expectation on her simply because on my own scale I was at a lower level. I was unable or unwilling to give patience or understanding, so I expected her to give things. In an attempt to compensate for my deficiency.

Y qué ocurre cuando cambia o desaparece la fuente de la fuerza, ya consista en el mayor tamaño o la mayor fuerza física, en la posición superior, en la autoridad, en credenciales, en símbolos de estatus, en el aspecto personal o en logros pasados?

Organize and execute around priorities.

more you know the more you know you don't know.

You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

response-ability"—the ability to choose your response.

That experience was not a planned P experience; it was the serendipitous fruit of a PC investment. It was bonding and very satisfying. But we enjoyed golden eggs, too, as the goose—the quality of the relationship—was significantly fed.

To begin with the end in mind means to approach my role as a parent, as well as my other roles in life, with my values and directions clear. It means to be responsible for my own first creation, to rescript myself so that the

Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

if you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.

paradigms from which my behavior and attitude flow are congruent with my deepest values and in harmony with correct principles. It also means to begin each day with those values firmly in mind. Then as the vicissitudes, as the challenges come, I can make my decisions based on those values. I can act with integrity. I don't have to react to the emotion, the circumstance. I can be truly proactive, value driven, because my values are clear.

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.

we're often so busy cutting through the undergrowth we don't even realize we're in the wrong jungle.

proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.

Our image of ourselves, and our role as good, caring parents, was even deeper than our image of our son and perhaps influenced

we want to make small changes, we can work on changing our behavior but if we want to make significant quantum changes, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

In the final analysis, effective delegation takes the emotional courage to allow, to one degree or another, others to make some mistakes on our own time, money, and good name. This courage consists of patience, self-control, faith in others and in their potential, and respect for individual differences.