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Stephen R. CoveyThe 8th Habit (2004)
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
More quotes on purpose
- Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
- Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.Rumi
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
- It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
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