Words That Change Perspectives

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

Winning is a habit. So is losing.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

Knowledge is the quickest and safest path to any success in any area of our lives.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

Fundamentals are the key to success.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

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.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

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 attitude and behavior and get to work on the root the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

Thoreau taught, "How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all of the time?"

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

11 It says if you want to have a happy marriage be the kind of person who generates positive energy and sidesteps negative energy rather than empowering it. If you want to have a more pleasant cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee. If you want to be trusted, be trustworthy. If you want the secondary greatness of recognized talent, focus first on primary greatness of character.

7 Habits Of Highly Effective People

Stephen Covey

Habits

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotl