Stephen Covey Quotes

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

It’s important for me to hear others position and understand them.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

I believe you can work with anybody.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.

If you can open people's hearts first, then maybe people's minds get opened after that.

Change begins with understanding and understanding begins by identifying oneself with another person: in a word, empathy. The arts enable us to put ourselves in the minds, eyes, ears and hearts of other human beings.

I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

If we have any hope for survival of the music that we all love, compassion must replace name-calling, fairness must replace greed, and we need to come together as a musical community and try to understand each other's problems.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

It is time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

I have a good relationship with the world. But I don't know what the trick is to maintaining it.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that's been helpful in my marriage.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

She was a genius at listening.