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Stephen R. Covey's 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People' provides a framework for personal and organizational development. The interactive edition includes enhanced features to engage readers in applying the principles of the seven habits to their lives.
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“You think effectiveness with people and efficiency with things.”
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“The enemy of the "best" is often the "good."”
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“It's like the more you know the more you know you don't know.”
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“We could not have gotten where we are without coming the way we came.”
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“A life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth.”
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“Writing distills, crystallizes, and clarifies thought.”
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“Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.”
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“Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.”
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“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success”
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“Intrinsic security doesn't come from what other people think of us or how they treat us. It doesn't come from our circumstance or out position. It comes from within. It comes from accurate paradigms and correct principles deep in our own mind and heart. It comes from inside-out congruence, from living a life of integrity in which our daily habits reflect our deepest values.”
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“Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".”
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“Frustration is a function of our expectations.”
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“By centering our lives on timeless, unchanging principles, we create a fundamental paradigm of effective living. It is the center that puts all other centers in perspective.”
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“But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
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“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”
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“Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic”
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“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.”
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“If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control - myself.”
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“Treat them all the same by treating them differently.”
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“Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.”
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“It comes from within.”
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“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
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“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”
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“Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
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“But borrowing strength builds weakness.”
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“Perhaps a sense of possessing needs to come to come before a sense of genuine sharing.”
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“Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.”
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“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
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“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
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“At some time in your life, you probably had someone believe in you when you didn't believe in yourself.”
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“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
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“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.”
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“The way we see things is the source of the way we think or the way we act”
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“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”
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“You can't change the fruit without changing the root.”
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“Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.”
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“You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.”
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“The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.”
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“We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.”
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“The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are.”
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“Always treat your employees exactly as you want them to treat your best customers.”
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“We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.”
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“Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”
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“Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.”
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“Effective people are not problem-minded; they're opportunity minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.”
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“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.”
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“All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation to all things”
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“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.”
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“Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.”
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“Our character is basically a composite of our habits.”
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