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To change the situation, you must first change yourself. To change yourself, you must first change your perceptions.
— Stephen Covey
Habit 1 says, "You are the programmer." Habit 2, then, says, "Write the program." Until you accept the idea that you are responsible, that you are the programmer, you won't really invest in writing the program.
— Stephen Covey
He realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
— Stephen Covey
And to change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
— Stephen Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us. Of course, things can hurt us physically or economically
— Stephen Covey
I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory.
— Stephen Covey
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts
— Stephen Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the maxim goes. Habits are powerful factors
— Stephen Covey
Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. Your creative, visual right brain is one of your most important assets, both in creating your personal mission statement and in integrating it into your life.
— Stephen Covey
True greatness will be achieved through the abundant mind that works selflessly—with mutual respect, for mutual benefit.
— Stephen Covey
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny," the
— Stephen Covey
I know this idea is a dramatic paradigm shift for many people. It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.
— Stephen Covey