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Seth Musician
Effectiveness

"If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you’ll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Effectiveness

"The only person over whom you have direct and immediate control is yourself. The most important assets to develop, preserve and enhance, therefore, are your own capabilities. And no one can do it for you. You must cultivate the habit of leadership effectiveness for yourself - and doing so will be the single best investment you will ever make."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Effectiveness

"True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose)."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Effectiveness

"There are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws in the human dimension that are just as real, just as unchanging and unarguably there as laws such as gravity are in the physical dimension."

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Stephen Covey Author, Speaker
Effectiveness

"What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? Quadrant II activities have that kind of impact. Our effectiveness takes quantum leaps when we do them."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Effectiveness

"All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness and opacity. All that is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration and transparency."

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