Stephen R. Covey Zitate

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„Lebe, liebe, lache, hinterlasse ein Vermächtnis.“

„Die meisten Menschen hören nicht mit der Absicht zu verstehen; sie hören mit der Absicht zu antworten.“

„Kraft liegt in Verschiedenartigkeiten, nicht in Ähnlichkeiten.“

„Die meisten von uns verbringen zu viel Zeit mit dem, was dringend ist, und zu wenig Zeit mit dem, was wichtig ist.“

„Jeder von uns bewacht ein Tor der Veränderung, das nur von innen geöffnet werden kann.“

„Unsere ultimative Freiheit ist das Recht und die Macht zu entscheiden, wie sich jemand oder etwas außerhalb von uns auf uns auswirkt.“

„Wir können unsere Handlungen frei wählen, ... aber wir können die Konsequenzen dieser Handlungen nicht frei wählen.“

„Zu wissen und nicht zu tun ist wirklich nicht zu wissen.“

„Management ist die Effektivität des Aufstiegs auf die Erfolgsleiter; Die Führung bestimmt, ob die Leiter an der rechten Wand anliegt.“

„Selbstloser Dienst war schon immer eine der mächtigsten Einflussmethoden.“

„Wir sind für unser eigenes Leben verantwortlich.“

„Ich lehre den Leuten, wie man mich zu behandeln hat, basierend auf dem, was ich zulasse.“

„Management macht die Dinge richtig; Führung macht die richtigen Dinge.“

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”

“Habit 1: Be Proactive
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 4: Think Win/Win
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”

“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”

“When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective.”

“We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”

“Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”

“It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

“We are free to choose our actions,… but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.”

“Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”

“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”

“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”

“Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic”

“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”

“Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love the verb or our loving actions. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.”

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

“You can't talk your way out of a problem you behaved your way into!”

“There are three constants in life… Change, Choice and Principles.”

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”

“I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.”

“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”

“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”

“People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.”

“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”

“It comes from within.”

“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”