"You can't change the fruit without changing the root."

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Source : Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.254, Mango Media Inc.

Stephen Covey

#Roots Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.”
“Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.”
“At the vital point of truth, we all become a conscientious objector.”
“There is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessness, a hidden wholeness. This mysterious unity and integrity is wisdom, the mother of us all, "natura naturans." There is in all things an inexhaustible sweetness and purity, a silence that is a fountain of action and joy. It rises up in wordless gentleness, and flows out to me from the unseen roots of all created being.”
“Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.”

Source : "OSCARS Q&A: Sally Field". Interview with David Mermelstein, deadline.com. December 12, 2012.
“Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.”
“What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?”

Source : "Stacey Dash on Oscars Outrage: 'It's Ludicrous ... Either We Want to Have Segregation or Integration'". "FOX & Friends", www.cnsnews.com. January 20, 2016.
“We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.”

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