Despite Grand Central's strategic significance, however, a bucket of sand tipped into one of these converters would have been enough to bring the terminal -- and 80% of the country's eastbound military movement -- to a standstill.

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If people fill the bucket with pebbles and sand (i.e. the small things), it is impossible to get the rocks in (i.e. the big things).

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He is looking at them as they absently sift sand with their hands, and imagining them as children in cotton hats, pouring sand from one bucket to another as their parents talk over and around them.

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Covey has demonstrated this principle using a bucket, rocks, pebbles, and sand.

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But when you put the large rocks in the bucket first, the pebbles as well as the sand seem to magically fit.

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The bucket represents your time and the rocks, pebbles, and sand represent the universe of things we have on our to- do list.

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Further south from Mobor, a trip across the languid Sal on a rust-bucket passenger ferry will take you to solace and solitude on magnificent Agonda Beach with its wide swathe of sand.

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