"Accountability breeds response-ability."

Covey, Stephen R. on responsibility
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"Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on growth
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"It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."

Paine, Thomas on integrity
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"Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head."

Twain, Mark on life
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"What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut."

Twain, Mark on consistency
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in."

Miller, Henry on writers and writing   

"The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk."

Twain, Mark on walking   

"Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish. Everything would break up in chaos. There would be no seasons, no civilization, no thought, no humanity; even life would give way, and the impotent void would reign everywhere."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on art   

"Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem."

Anderson, Lindsay on art
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"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."

Martin, Steve on entertainment   

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

Apollinaire, Guillaume on happiness
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"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

Warhol, Andy on business   

"Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art."

Carter, Angela on art   

"Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same."

Eliot, T. S. on art   

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

Cather, Willa on art   

"Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall."

Covey, Stephen R. on management
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"Love - THE FEELING - is a fruit of love, the verb."

Covey, Stephen R. on love
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"As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole--the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration. We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations."

Covey, Stephen R. on limitation   

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

Covey, Stephen R. on imagination
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"We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey."

Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De on humankind
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"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."

Covey, Stephen R. on freedom
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"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally being lived. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society."

Covey, Stephen R. on freedom
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"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."

Covey, Stephen R. on feelings
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"The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character."

Covey, Stephen R. on ethics
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"In addition to self-awareness, imagination and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment-independent will-that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day."

Covey, Stephen R. on decisions
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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

Browne, Sir Thomas on potential
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"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

Ziglar, Zig on goals
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"The Inside-Out approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self -- with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves recedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."

Covey, Stephen R. on change
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"Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure."

Covey, Stephen R. on potential
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"If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own."

Covey, Stephen R. on circumstance
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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. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."

Covey, Stephen R. on wisdom
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"It's easy to say no! when there's a deeper yes! burning inside."

Covey, Stephen R. on vision
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"Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it."

Covey, Stephen R. on victory   

"Seek first to understand and then to be understood."

Covey, Stephen R. on understanding
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"Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character"

Covey, Stephen R. on character
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"Management works in the system; Leadership works on the system."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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"We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions."

Covey, Stephen R. on time
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