Quotes from Stephen R. Covey

Žinoma, j?s geriau sutvarkytum?te kambar? už savo vaik?, ta?iau jums kur kas svarbiau išmokyti vaik? tvarkos. Mokymas užima daug laiko, ta?iau sugaištas laikas ateityje atsipirks šimteriopai.

the goose (production capability) is often a difficult judgment call. But I suggest it is the very essence of effectiveness. It balances short term with long term. It balances going for the grade and paying the price to get an education. It balances the desire to have a room clean and the building of a relationship in which the child is internally committed to do it—cheerfully, willingly, without external supervision.

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as

But much of our current emphasis on independence is a reaction to dependence—to having others control us, define us, use us, and manipulate us.

He wanted his people to work together, to share ideas, to all benefit from the effort. But he was setting them up in competition with each other.

In the words of Madame de Staël, "The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it: but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it.

I am convinced that when recruiting and selecting is done strategically, that is, thinking long-term and proactively, not based upon the pressures of the moment, it pays enormous long-term dividends.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole."2

While we can't always control what happens to us, we can always choose how we react to life's challenges.

The principles you live by create the world you live in.

Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *

Žmon?s apskritai yra pažeidžiami ir jautr?s,tai, manau nepriklauso nuo amžiaus ar gyvenimo patirties. Iš paži?ros tvirta žmogaus išor? dažnai slepia švelnius jausmus ir šilt? šird?.

Creating the unity necessary to run an effective business or a family or a marriage requires great personal strength and courage.

if there is little or no trust, there is no foundation for permanent success. Only basic goodness gives life to technique.

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.

Holding people to the responsible course is not demeaning; it is affirming.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busyness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

Si nuestros sentimientos controlan nuestras acciones, ello se debe a que hemos renunciado a nuestra responsabilidad y a que permitimos que los sentimientos nos gobiernen.

Interdependence is a far more mature, more advanced concept. If I am physically interdependent, I am self-reliant and capable, but I also realize that you and I working together can accomplish far more than, even at my best, I could accomplish alone.

the person who doesn't read is no better off than the person who can't read

Chasing after the poisonous snake that bites us will only drive the poison through our entire system. It is far better to take measures immediately to get the poison out.

The PC principle is to always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Or a person endlessly going to school, never producing, living on other people's golden eggs—the eternal student syndrome.

You see the young lady; I see the old woman. We're both looking at the same picture, and both of us are right. We see the same black lines, the same white spaces. But we interpret them differently because we've been conditioned to interpret them differently.