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Stephen Covey Biography

Stephen Richards Covey (October 24, 1932 – July 16, 2012) was an American educator, author, businessman, and keynote speaker. His most popular book is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. His other books include First Things First, Principle-Centered Leadership, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families, The 8th Habit, and The Leader In Me — How Schools and Parents Around the World Are Inspiring Greatness, One Child at a Time. He was a professor at the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University at the time of his death.

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Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.

Ability, Accomplish, Organises, Visualising

You can't be successful with other people if you haven't paid the price of success with yourself.

Leadership, Paid, People, Success, Successful

People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising.

Advertising, Mouths, People, Want, Word

I am fortunate to have a very helpful team that enables me to spend time doing things that are important but not necessarily urgent. People who have no such team need to also make these larger decisions so that they can cheerfully say No to that which is urgent but not important.

Decision, Make, People, Say, Spend, Team

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

7 Habits, Core, Live, People

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

Culture, Principles, System, Value, Vision

I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.

Believe, Human Nature, Legislation, Power, Reached

. . . to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Inspirational, Students, 7 Habits, Know, Learn

Whether or not we belong to a church or service organization or have a job that provides meaningful service opportunities, not a day goes by that we can't at least serve one other human being by making deposits of unconditional love.

Belong, Church, Jobs, Love, Meaningful, Unconditional Love

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.

Defined, Eventually, Happiness, Happy, Sacrifice

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

Change, Children, Results, Societ, Teach

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

Thinking, Purpose, Want, Higher, Subordinate, Painful

Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.

Having, Heart, Integrity, Source, Spiritual, Trillion

Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools.

Children, Identity, School, Test, Theft

'Efficient' scheduling and control of time are often counterproductive. The efficiency focus creates expectations that clash with the opportunities to develop rich relationships, to meet human needs, and to enjoy spontaneous moments on a daily basis.

Counterproductive, Efficiency, Expectations, Focus, Opportunity, Time

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It's the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

Change, Determine, Ideas, Life, Respectful, Ten

Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.

Differences, Emotional, Mental, Teamwork, Untapped

we're responsible for our own lives.

Good Decision, Lives, Responsible

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Communicate, Flow, Naturally, Performances, Power, Sense

Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.

Adventure, Day, Effectiveness, Openness, People, Personal

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