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Quotes About Mindset

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. There are things, like the weather, that our Circle of Influence will never include. But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us. We can be happy and accept those things that at present we can't control, while we focus our efforts on the things that we can.
~ Stephen R. Covey
No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more
~ Stephen R. Covey
Proactive people aren't pushy. They're smart, they're value driven, they read reality, and they know what's needed.
~ Stephen R. Covey
We are the instrument of our own performance
~ Stephen R. Covey
My own experience with people confirms the point Frankl makes—that the highest of the three values is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.
~ Stephen R. Covey
La gente reactiva suele verse afectada por el medio ambiente. Si el clima es agradable, se sienten bien. Si no lo es, su actitud y desempeño se modifican. La gente proactiva lleva el buen clima consigo. Si afuera llueve o sale el sol, para ellos no hay diferencia alguna.7
~ Stephen R. Covey
In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Sempre que achamos que o problema está "lá fora"; este pensamento em si é o problema.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Sometimes the most proactive thing we can do is to be happy, just to genuinely smile. Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. There are things, like the weather, that our Circle of Influence will never include. But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us. We can be happy and accept those things that at present we can't control, while we focus our efforts on the things that we can.
~ Stephen R. Covey
We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.
~ Stephen R. Covey
You can achieve what do you want if you believe it
~ Stephen R. Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically and can cause sorrow. But our character, our basic identity, does not have to be hurt at all.
~ Stephen R. Covey
In making such a choice, we become reactive. Reactive people are often affected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference
~ Stephen R. Covey
As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, "No one can hurt you without your consent." In the words of Gandhi, "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Proactive people can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no difference to them. They are value driven; and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of whether the weather is conducive to it or not.
~ Stephen R. Covey
our reactions are a product of our perceptions, and our perceptions are a result of what is the center of our life.
~ Stephen R. Covey
In the words of Abraham Maslow, "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Our new paradigm was created as we invested in the growth and development of our own character.
~ Stephen R. Covey
the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.
~ Stephen R. Covey
your happiness depends on (1) genetics, (2) circumstances, and (3) things you can control.
~ Stephen R. Covey
In the last analysis, as Marilyn Ferguson observed, "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Proactive people subordinate feelings to values.
~ Stephen R. Covey
The language of reactive people absolves them of responsibility. Reactive vs. Proactive Voice There's nothing I can do vs. Let's look at our alternatives That's just the way I am vs. I can choose a different approach He makes me so mad vs. I control my own feelings They won't allow that vs. I can create an effective presentation I have to do that vs. I will choose an appropriate response I can't vs. I choose I must vs. I prefer If only vs. I will
~ Stephen R. Covey