"高效能人士的七个习惯"经典名言摘录

Chapter One  Inside-Out (由内而外全面造就自己)
1.There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
   没有正确的生活,就没有真正卓越的人生.(P22)
                                                 -- David Starr Jordan(戴维.斯塔.乔丹,美国生物学家及教育家)
2.What you are shouts so loudly in my ears that I cannot hear what you say.
   大声喧哗反而难以入耳.(P28)
                                                 --Ralph Waldo Emerson(拉尔夫·瓦尔多·爱默生)
3.Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent
   unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man
   really is, not what he pretends to be.     
   人性可善可恶,冥冥中影响着我们的一生,而且总是如实反映出真正的自我,那是伪装不来的.(P28)                                      
                                                 --William George Jordan(威廉姆.乔治.乔登)
4.For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
   一棵邪恶的大树,砍它枝叶千斧,不如砍它根基一斧.(P35)
                                                 --Henry David Thoreau(亨利·戴维·梭罗)
5.How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our
   knowledge all of the time?
   如果我们时时忙着展现自己的知识,将何从忆起成长所需的无知?(P39)
                                                 --Henry David Thoreau(亨利·戴维·梭罗)
6.The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were
   at when we created them.
   重大问题发生时,依我们当时的思想水准往往无法解决.(P44)
                                                 --Albert Einstein(阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦)
7.We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where
   we began and to know the place for the first time.
   我们必不可停止探索,而一切探索的尽头,就是重回起点,并对起点有首次般的了解.(P46)
                                                 --T. S. Eliot(艾略特)
 Chapter Two The Seven Habits--An Overview(七个习惯概论)
1.We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
   人的行为总是一再重复.因此卓越不是单一的举动,而是习惯.(P48)
                                                --Aristotle(亚里士多德)
2.Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character;
   sow a character, reap a destiny.
   思想决定行动,行动决定习惯,习惯决定品德,品德决定命运.(P48)
 Chapter Three Habit 1: Be Proactive--Principles of Personal Visio
                                      (积极主动--个人愿景的原则)
1.I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his
   life by conscious endeavor.
   最令人鼓舞的事实,莫过于人类确实能主动努力以提升生命价值.(P63)
                                                --Henry David Thoreau(亨利·戴维·梭罗)
2.No one can hurt you without your consent.
   除非你愿意,否则没人能伤害你.(P68)
                                                --Eleanor Roosevelt(埃莉诺.罗斯福--美国小罗斯福总统的夫人)
3.They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
   除非你拱手相让,否则没人能剥夺我们的自尊.(P68)
                                                --Gandhi(甘地)
4.The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of
   human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste
   his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
   满意源自内心,那些对人性一无所知的人总是妄图在维持自我的前提下追求幸福,结果必是徒劳无功,而本来想摆脱
   的痛苦却会与日俱增.(P84)
                                               --Samuel Johnson(塞缪尔.约翰逊--英国辞典编纂家兼作家)
Chapter Four Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind(以终为始)
1.What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
   和内在的力量相比,身外之物显得微不足道.(P87)
                                     --Oliver Wendell Holme(奥利弗.温德尔.霍姆斯--前美国最高法院大法官)
2.Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
  管理是正确地做事,领导则是做正确的事.(P91)
                                     --Peter Drucker(彼得.彼鲁克) and Warren Bennis(华伦.贝尼斯)
3.we detect rather than invent our missions in life.
  我们是发现而不是发明自己的人生使命.(P111)
                                     --Frankl(弗兰克尔)
Chapter Five Habit 3: Put First Things First(要事第一)
                                  --Principles of Personal Management(自我管理的原则)
1.Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
   重要之事决不可受芝麻绿豆小事牵绊.(P124)
                                     --Goethe(歌德---德国诗人)
2.The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do.
   They don't like doing them either necessarily.
   But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.
   成功者能为失败者所不能为,纵使并非心甘情愿,但为了理想与目标,仍可以凭毅力克服心理障碍.(P127)
                                     --E. M. Gray(格雷)
3.80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.
   20%的活动取得80%的成果.(P132)    ---Pareto Principle(帕雷托原则)