The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,” he observed. “They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But … - Stephen Covey

"Inside-Out" means to start first with self; even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self — with your paradigms, your character, and your motives

Changing a planning tool or a method won’t create significant change in the results we’re getting in our lives — although the implied promise is that it will. It’s not a matter of controlling things more, better, or faster; it’s questioning the whole assumption of control.

If two people have the same opinion, one is unnecessary. It’s not going to do me any good at all to communicate with someone else who sees only the old woman also. I don’t want to talk, to communicate, with someone who agrees with me; I want to communicate with you because you see it differently. I value that difference.