Prepare your mind and heart before you prepare your speech. What we say may be less important than how we say it.
SR
Stephen R. CoveyPrinciple-Centered Leadership (1992)
About Stephen R. Covey
American educator and author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. (1932-2012)
More from Stephen R. Covey
- The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Habit 5
- Begin with the end in mind.The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), Habit 2
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- Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.Vincent van Gogh
- If you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time.Lin-Manuel Miranda
- People have forgotten how to tell a story.Steven Spielberg
- The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.Zig Ziglar
- The quality of your life is the quality of your communication.Tony Robbins
- To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.Tony Robbins
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