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Quotes About Work

It was only when we went to work in our Circle of Influence, when we focused on our own paradigms, that we began to create a positive energy that changed ourselves and eventually influenced our son as well. By working on ourselves instead of worrying about conditions, we were able to influence the conditions.
~ Stephen R. Covey
If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.
~ 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
I know one father who was leaving with his children for a promised trip to the circus when a phone call came for him to come to work instead. He declined. When his wife suggested that perhaps he should have gone to work, he responded, "The work will come again, but childhood won't.
~ Stephen R. Covey
I've taken course after course on effective management training. I expect a lot out of my employees and I work hard to be friendly toward them and to treat them right.
~ Stephen R. Covey
You may find that your mission statement will be much more balanced, and easier to work with, if you break it down into the specific role reas of your life and the goals you want to accomplish in each area
~ Stephen R. Covey
the very problem created the opportunity to build a deep relationship that empowered us to work together as a strong complementary team.
~ Stephen R. Covey
If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon immortal minds, and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." I
~ Stephen R. Covey
We each have a wide range of concerns—our health, our children, problems at work, the national debt, nuclear war. We could separate those from things in which we have no particular mental or emotional involvement by creating a "Circle of Concern.
~ Stephen R. Covey
in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.
~ Stephen R. Covey
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die. For the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
~ Stephen R. Covey
To maintain the P/PC Balance, the balance between the golden egg (production) and the health and welfare of
~ Stephen R. Covey
Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Si uno quiere tener más libertad, más margen en el trabajo, debe ser un empleado más responsable, más útil, más colaborador.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system;
~ Stephen R. Covey
You live your life in terms of roles—not in the sense of role-playing, but in the sense of authentic relationships and responsibilities you've committed to. You may have important roles in your family, in the community, at work, or in other areas of your life. Roles represent responsibilities, relationships, and areas of contribution.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Their guidance is a function of the demands of the work. Their wisdom and power come in the limited areas of their work, rendering them ineffective in other areas of life.
~ Stephen R. Covey
conditioning of a lifetime? The influences in our lives—family, school, church, work environment, friends, associates, and current social paradigms such as the Personality Ethic—all have made their silent unconscious impact on us and help shape our frame of reference, our paradigms, our maps.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Third, what you choose to do contributes to your ultimate values in life. Staying at work to get the edge on someone at the office is an entirely different evening in your life from staying because you value your boss's effectiveness and you genuinely want to contribute to the company's welfare. The experiences you have as you carry out your decisions take on quality and meaning in the context of your life as a whole.
~ Stephen R. Covey
their attitude and their performance. 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
As a principle-centered person, you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole—the work needs, the family needs, other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternative decisions—you'll try to come up with the best solution, taking all factors into consideration.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.
~ Stephen Sondheim
La mentalidad de crecimiento genera la creencia optimista de que puedes lograr casi cualquier cosa si inviertes el suficiente trabajo y tiempo.
~ Steve Allen
that all-important first impression, a narrative that is totally within your control, so work it to your advantage.
~ Steve Berry