The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Being is seeing in the human dimension. And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are.

We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

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

As Emerson once put it, “What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I cannot hear what you say.”

Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.