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Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#change #choose #conscience #creative #every

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#cannot #cardinal #continuously #escapes #improve

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#climbing #determines #efficiency #ladder #leadership

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#contribution #life

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#effective #essential #foundational #glue #holds

For me, poetry is always a search for order. ↗

— Elizabeth Jennings

#me #order #poetry #search

When it comes to developing character strength, inner security and unique personal and interpersonal talents and skills in a child, no institution can or ever will compare with, or effectively substitute for, the home's potential for positive influence. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#character #child #comes #compare #developing

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#genuinely #gets #happy #i #instead

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#ever #extremely #job #life #making

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy