Stephen Covey (Stephen Richards Covey) Quotes
None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
Stephen Covey
Quotes to Explore
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The higher people get, the more evolved and psychologically healthy people get, the more will enlightened management policy be necessary in order to survive in competition and the more handicapped will be an enterprise with an authoritarian policy.
Abraham Maslow
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When we give trust, we receive trust. And people who trust us pay attention to us.
Warren Farrell
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It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Childhood living is easy to do The things you wanted, I bought them for you Graceless lady, you know who I am You know I can't let you slide through my hands Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, couldn't drag me away.
Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stones
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
Benjamin Franklin
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We made a completely new kind of transistor (the NPN BJT, and in our development work, our researcher, Leo Esaki, demonstrated the electron tunneling effect, which led to the development of the tunnel diode for which he was awarded a Nobel Prize seventeen years later, after he had joined IBM.
Akio Morita
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I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives.
Kathryn Harrison
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There was nothing so antipodal to his nature as this man's cold, unimaginative sagacity, by contact with which everything was converted into a dream except the densest matter of the physical world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
David Shields
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Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.
Emil Cioran
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The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.
Olaf Stapledon
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None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.
Stephen Covey
