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“No one can say just how long a message should be, but you rarely hear complaints about a speech being too short. The amateur worries about what he is going to put in his speech or article. The expert worries about what he should take out.”

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Edgar Dale

Edgar Dale was a prominent professor known for his research in the field of education. He was born on April 27, 1900, and passed away on March 8, 1985. Professor Dale made significant contributions to educational theory and practice, particularly in the areas of teaching models and curriculum design. more

“"If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.”

Life Writing Values Change Vision Expression Constitution Missions Statements Life Changing Criteria Mission Statement

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.”

Ifs Want Life Bigs Change Attitude Primaries Life Changing Paradigm Small Changes

Author:Stephen Covey

“Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.”

Life Goal Change Fantasy Plans Achieve Pure Setting Settings Life Changing Setting Goals

Author:Stephen Covey

“Synergy is better than my way or your way. It's our way.”

Way Life Change My Way Life Changing Synergy

Book:The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

Source: The 3rd Alternative: Solving Life's Most Difficult Problems

“The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.”

Life Humans Spirit Desire Change Life Changing Human Spirit

Author:Stephen Covey

“Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“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.”

Life Humans Two Ideas Happens Change Challenges Human Beings Results Thousand Ten Hundred Profound Determine Life Changing Plus Respectful Synergy Preconceived Ideas

Author:Stephen Covey

“Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.”

Source: The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time

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