Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)

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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

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Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Algebra comes before calculus.

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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.

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We are free to choose our actions,... but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

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The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

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Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

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Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.

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