Stephen R. Covey Quotations

We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds thesum of their individual effects.

Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts andto write a new one.

The noise of urgency creates an illusion of importance

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

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.

Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.

Between stimulus and response is our greatest power - the freedom to choose

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We cansubordinate feelings to values.

Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are the reincarnation of cumulative resentment, deep disappointment and disillusionment repressed by the Lose/Win mentality. Disproportionate rage or anger, overreaction to minor provocation, and cynicism are other embodiments of suppressed emotion. People who are constantly repressing, not transcending feelings toward a higher meaning find that it affects the quality of their relationships with others.