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“あなたの中にいる君へ子どもたちには、とても申し訳ないと思っている。この本はどうしても子ども向けには書く”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Another time, he was playing [chess] with his equal, the Duchess of Bourbon, who made a move that inadvertently exposed her king. Ignoring the rules of the game, he promptly captured it. "Ah," said the duchess, "we do not take Kings so." Replied Franklin in a famous quip: "We do in America.”
― Walter Isaacson, Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

“When I got to the age that I wanted to start buying things, she told me that there was no savings, that she had four kids to raise at the time, and that I should be thankful we had a roof over our heads. We had been tricked into giving her our money for safe keeping from the time we were five years old. It seemed reasonable that she would continue to make us feel sorry for her and take our money as adults too.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“I couldn’t concentrate on the Spanish vocabulary I was supposed to be writing down in my notebook. I hardly noticed when a student walked in halfway through the period”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“To paraphrase Peter Drucker, effective people are not problem-minded; they’re opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively. They have genuine Quadrant I crises and emergencies that require their immediate attention, but the number is comparatively small. They keep P and PC in balance by focusing on the important, but not urgent, high leverage capacity-building activities of Quadrant II.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“You. You are my problem.” He chucked his book bag”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“I held up a finger because I needed my point to stick. “If a child does not want to tell, they won’t. If a family does not want to heal, they won’t. I wanted to heal, I wanted peace in my life, and I wanted to tell. So I did. I thought my family would want the same, and it kills me that they have such great potential to thrive but they don’t. I lost a lot of sleep over that. I cried a lot over that. But at the end of the day, the only person I can make changes to is myself. No matter how much I tell them how liberating it feels to finally be as happy as I am, they’ll never understand if they don’t want to.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“parliamentary majority; the Conservative opposition appeared to be destined for a lengthy stay in the political wilderness; the country was enjoying continued, indeed unparalleled, economic growth; and the constitutional reforms introduced by the Government—not least devolution of power to elected assemblies in Scotland and Wales—appeared to be bedding”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“りさせなないと、わかろうとしないんだ。 それで僕”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Heather was my designated victim advocate. She was in charge of making sure I understood what was going on during the court proceedings and looked after my best interests. I listened to her rattle off information about our PFA, but I was having a hard time concentrating. Basically it was a piece of paper that said Earl couldn’t come near anyone in the family, otherwise we could call the police and he would be arrested on the spot. I secretly hoped he would violate the order just so I didn’t have to worry about him running around while they conducted the investigation, which seemed to be taking forever.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Third, what you choose to do contributes to your ultimate values in life. Staying at work to get the edge on someone at the office is an entirely different evening in your life from staying because you value your boss’s effectiveness and you genuinely want to contribute to the company’s welfare. The experiences you have as you carry out your decisions take on quality and meaning in the context of your life as a whole.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“them from the wreckage of his choices. Targeting a dangerous ex-drug kingpin and his own father, Jared needs to learn who to trust, who to kill, and who to forgive when their respective paths collide.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“*Spilled Milk was based on true events. Author K.L. Randis testified at a criminal trial against her father, who was sentenced”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“The U.S. Constitution is considered by Americans to embody the principles of a higher law, to constitute “in fact imperfect man’s most perfect rendering of what Blackstone saluted as ‘the eternal immutable laws of good and evil, to which the”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“They never gave me a polygraph. I imagined myself strapped to a machine with a series of questions being rattled off. The proctors would nod their heads and mark the sheets as it fed out the results. Everyone wanted to know the truth, yet they asked the wrong questions over and over. “Are you okay?” “Do you need a break?” “What can I do?” No one would want to hear the real answers.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“1828, the Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo, became prime minister of the United Kingdom. In South America, Uruguay gained national independence. Japan suffered its second-worst natural disaster in 1828, when the Siebold Typhoon killed ten thousand people. On May 26, 1828, in Nuremburg, Germany, a mysterious child named Kaspar Hauser made headlines when he appeared out of nowhere, walking the streets in a daze. In the United States, Andrew Jackson defeated John Quincy Adams in one of the bitterest presidential elections in American history. Jackson's candidacy established a new political”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“It so happens that at the writing of this afterword for this new edition of The 7 Habits, I have just completed a new book entitled The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness. To some, calling it the 8th Habit may appear to be a departure from my standard answer. But you see, as I say in the opening chapter of this new book, the world has profoundly changed since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was published in 1989. The challenges and complexity we face in our personal lives and relationships, in our families, in our professional lives, and in our organizations are of a different order of magnitude. In fact, many mark 1989—the year we witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall—as the beginning of the Information Age, the birth of a new reality, a sea change of incredible significance… truly a new era.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“ダーズリー氏は、穴あけドリルを製造しているグラニングズ社の社長だ。ずんぐりと肉づきがよい体型のせいで、首がほとんどない。そのかわり巨大な口髭が目立っていた。奥さんの方”
― J.K. Rowling, ハリー・ポッターと賢者の石 ハリー・ポッターシリーズ

“Many books have been written about the nautical world of the nineteenth century. Most of the best of these were written long ago and, although crucial to an understanding of that dizzying period, are dated”
― Peter Kurtz, Bluejackets in the Blubber Room: A Biography of the William Badger, 1828-1865

“As I reflect upon some of the exceptional leaders I’ve studied in my research, I’m struck by how Covey’s principles are manifested in many of their stories. Let me focus on one of my favorite cases, Bill Gates. It’s become fashionable in recent years to attribute the outsize success of someone like Bill Gates to luck, to being in the right place at the right time. But if you think about it, this argument falls apart. When Popular Electronics put the Altair computer on its cover, announcing the advent of the first-ever personal computer, Bill Gates teamed up with Paul Allen to launch a software company and write the BASIC programming language for the Altair. Yes, Gates was at just the right moment with programming skills, but so were other people—students in computer science and electrical engineering at schools like Cal Tech, MIT, and Stanford; seasoned engineers at technology companies like IBM, Xerox, and HP; and scientists in government research laboratories. Thousands of people could’ve done what Bill Gates did at that moment, but they didn’t. Gates acted upon the moment. He dropped out of Harvard, moved to Albuquerque (where the Altair was based), and wrote computer code day and night. It was not the luck of being at the right moment in history that separated Bill Gates, but his proactive response to being at the right moment (Habit 1: Be Proactive).”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“I think I would live by Albert Schweitzer’s three basic rules for raising children: First, example; second, example; third, example. But I wouldn’t go quite that far. I would say, first, example; second, build a caring and affirming relationship; and third, teach some of the simple ideas underlying the habits in the language of children—help them gain a basic understanding and vocabulary of the 7 Habits and show them how to process their own experiences through the principles; let them identify what particular principles and habits are being illustrated in their lives.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“As you renew your mental dimension, you reinforce your personal management (Habit 3). As you plan, you force your mind to recognize high leverage Quadrant II activities, priority goals, and activities to maximize the use of your time and energy, and you organize and execute your activities around your priorities. As you become involved in continuing education, you increase your knowledge base and you increase your options. Your economic security does not lie in your job; it lies in your own power to produce—to think, to learn, to create, to adapt. That’s true financial independence. It’s not having wealth; it’s having the power to produce wealth. It’s intrinsic.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“First come in here, Brooke. I have to show you something.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“The plastic smell told me I was in his bedroom and on his waterbed. I tasted blood as I bit my lip and twisted my face. The room was a black hole. Not even the stars were brave enough to watch, as they cowered behind overcast skies. Pain shot up through my body as I contorted my back. My cheeks were on fire and the room began to spin. I grabbed at the sheets and the weight of his body pushed me deeper into the bed.”
― K.L. Randis, Spilled Milk

“Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901) marked the transition from a monarch”
― Philip Norton, British Polity, The, CourseSmart eTextbook

“kings. Then a different paradigm was developed—government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And a constitutional democracy was born, unleashing tremendous human energy and ingenuity, and creating a standard of living, of freedom and liberty, of influence and hope unequaled”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role, such as that of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, manager or leader. We could spend”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“came into focus. Through continued calm, respectful, and specific communication, each of us in the room was finally able to see the other point of view. But when we looked away and then back, most of us would immediately see the image we had been conditioned to see in the ten-second period of time. I frequently use this perception demonstration in working with people and organizations because”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People