Stephen R Covey Quotes

“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“We could spend weeks, months, even years laboring with the personality ethic trying to change our attitudes and behaviors and not even begin to approach the phenomenon of change that occurs spontaneously when we see things differently”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not do is really not to know.”
― Stephen R. Covey

“If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”
― Stephen R. Covey