Quotes

“To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“I imagine that yes is the only living thing.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Nothing recedes like progress.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“It takes three to make a child.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.” Edward Estlin Cummings

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.” Edgar Cayce

“It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.” Edgar Cayce

“You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.” Edgar Cayce

“There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!” Edgar Cayce

“For, he that expects nothing shall not be disappointed, but he that expects much - if he lives and uses that in hand day by day - shall be full to running over.” Edgar Cayce

“When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.” Edgar Cayce

“There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.” Stephen Covey

“Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.” Stephen Covey

“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” Stephen Covey

“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” Stephen Covey

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” Stephen Covey

“Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” Stephen Covey

“A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.” Stephen Covey

“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” Stephen Covey

“We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.” Stephen Covey

“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” Stephen Covey

“When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.” Stephen Covey

“Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.” Stephen Covey

“Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.” Stephen Covey

“Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.” Stephen Covey

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.” Stephen Covey