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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| eb34791 | In the words of both Peter Drucker and Warren Bennis, "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things." Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 91c9443 | Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our happiness. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0f3b89d | Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0e1699c | 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. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 43e8236 | 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. "That's right," he reaffirmed. "And.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| fb1af64 | always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 9f9d03c | Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| dea14a0 | Sincere apologies make deposits; repeated apologies interpreted as insincere make withdrawals. And the quality of the relationship reflects it. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| eefc1bb | It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms. In the words of Thoreau, "For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root." We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of a.. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 1687b08 | How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office? | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| d34ca7f | We often get into ruts, on treadmills, caught up in patterns and habits that aren't useful. We don't stop to ask, what can I learn from this week that will keep next week from essentially being a repeat of the same? | inspirational life productivity repeating-the-past | Stephen R. Covey | |
| 17ee86a | The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| eb0e3bd | The work will come again, but childhood won't. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0b6eb40 | In fact, "grow or die" is the moral imperative of all existence." | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| f90398c | Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love. MOTHER TERESA | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 729b752 | The children of blame are cynicism and hopelessness. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 5c27101 | I am the creative force of my life. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 0bcb509 | love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| b5cf89d | Whatever you can do, or dream, begin it! For boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 11cca1e | life is a mission and not a career, | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| b06f1d2 | in relationships, the little things are the big things. | Stephen R. Covey | ||
| 2b7d44f | Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fencesitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation" -- he took a deep breath, getting ready for his final condemnation -- "is lukewar.. | Dan Millman | ||
| dbbf12e | I am a warrior! he snapped. Beyond that, who I am depends on who you want me to be. | Dan Millman | ||
| bcc3878 | Happiness is not just something you feel -- it is who you are. | Dan Millman | ||
| c143a82 | Reason has survival value, but when overused at the expense of our intuition, feeling, and spirit, reason cuts us off from discovering our full potential. | Dan Millman | ||
| 3511465 | When a man has learned to live without money, he thought, a few rubles can go a long way. | Dan Millman | ||
| 78ee8f7 | You will fail many times, but in failing you will learn , and in learning you will find your way. | Dan Millman | ||
| f466947 | Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens. | Dan Millman | ||
| b4374e1 | We all know that life has ups and downs; you've experienced both. And though you can't always control what happens outside you, you can choose how you will respond. You can treat life as a dance rather than a wrestling match. You can become an active participant rather than a victim of circumstance. | Dan Millman | ||
| 1ae285b | I don't even know if the sun will rise or whether I'll wake up in the morning. I don't know if God will grant me my next breath. So I choose to live on faith rather than knowledge--and accept whatever comes, welcome or not, bitter or sweet--all of it, a gift from God. | Dan Millman | ||
| 247dd58 | Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. -- Stuart Wilde | Dan Millman | ||
| 15084d1 | Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast. | Dan Millman | ||
| 8b00a57 | Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit! | Dan Millman | ||
| 4b4e233 | Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it. Anonymous | Dan Millman | ||
| 719fe11 | There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened. | Dan Millman | ||
| 31ac6d1 | Happy people create happiness; it's the most contagious energy on Earth. Fearful, sad, angry, or miserable people only tend to spread these same qualities, even if working in the name of "social conscience." | Dan Millman | ||
| 6f899bb | The movements of the highest warriors are relaxed and expansive because they fight for a cause larger than themselves. Only by surrendering to God's will does one find victory in battle and serenity in life." Serafim started pacing again, as he did" -- | Dan Millman | ||
| 708b0fe | I've learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach. | Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins | ||
| a25096b | Every time you glance down at your smartphone to check your location, you are unwittingly consulting a network of twenty-four atomic clocks housed in satellites in low-earth orbit above you. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 8c66355 | There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 4524768 | today there are more than three billion people around the world who lack access to clean drinking water and basic sanitation systems. In absolute numbers, we have gone backward as a species. | Steven Johnson | ||
| e259aee | If we think that innovation comes from a lone genius inventing a new technology from scratch, that model naturally steers us toward certain policy decisions, like stronger patent protection. But if we think that innovation comes out of collaborative networks, then we want to support different policies and organizational forms: less rigid patent laws, open standards, employee participation in stock plans, cross-disciplinary connections. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 5f34bb7 | The wetland created by the beaver, like the thriving platform created by the Twitter founders, invites variation because it is an open platform where resources are shared as much as they are protected. | Steven Johnson | ||
| 89e171e | if your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon. | innovation | steven johnson |