The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

by Stephen R. Covey

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.

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