"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
"We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future)."
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Source: First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy. Book by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill, 1994.
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