Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations

Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations

Covey, S.R., A.R. Merrill, and R.R. Merrill

First Things First

Covey, S.R., A.R. Merrill, and R.R. Merrill

Viktor Frankl: We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms---to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether of not you would become the plaything of circumstance \ldots [p.~169]

Hans Selye: compares the independent achievement focus to `the development of a cancer, whose most characteristic feature is that it cares only for itself. Hence, it feeds on the other parts of its own host until it kills the host--- and thus commits biological suicide, since a cancer cell cannot live except within the body in which it started its reckless, egocentric development.'

Stephen Covey: Recently in a large group a man said to me, ``Stephen, how do we get principle-centered leadership in Congress?'
I said, `How do you treat your wife?'
`What's that got to do with it?' he demanded.
I said, `Ultimately, public policy is private morality writ large.'
He flushed at that and didn't say another word. Thinking I had offended him, I went up to him afterward to apologize. `I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't mean to do that. But I really believe in the inside-out approach.'
`It's not that you offended me,' he said. `But what you said hit home! All my life I've tended to blame other people out there for injustices. And I know I've taken out my frustrations on my loved ones. For you to put your finger on that problem hit me hard. But I needed to hear it.' [p.~202]

First Things First
Covey, S.R., A.R. Merrill, and R.R. Merrill
Viktor Frankl: We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms---to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether of not you would become the plaything of circumstance \ldots [p.~169] Hans Selye: compares the independent achievement focus to `the development of a cancer, whose most characteristic feature is that it cares only for itself. Hence, it feeds on the other parts of its own host until it kills the host--- and thus commits biological suicide, since a cancer cell cannot live except within the body in which it started its reckless, egocentric development.' Stephen Covey: Recently in a large group a man said to me, ``Stephen, how do we get principle-centered leadership in Congress?' I said, `How do you treat your wife?' `What's that got to do with it?' he demanded. I said, `Ultimately, public policy is private morality writ large.' He flushed at that and didn't say another word. Thinking I had offended him, I went up to him afterward to apologize. `I'm sorry if I offended you. I didn't mean to do that. But I really believe in the inside-out approach.' `It's not that you offended me,' he said. `But what you said hit home! All my life I've tended to blame other people out there for injustices. And I know I've taken out my frustrations on my loved ones. For you to put your finger on that problem hit me hard. But I needed to hear it.' [p.~202]

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