… cannot envision the world we would like to live in, we cannot work towards its creation. If we cannot place ourselves in it in our imagination, we will not believe it is possible.
– Chellis Glendinning
Tag Archives: Change
The greatest good…
… you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Most people…
… use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions; it’s very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.
– John C Maxwell
All organisations…
…. do change when put under sufficient pressure. This pressure must be either external to the organization or the result of very strong leadership.
– Bruce Henderson
Before you…
…. can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
– Winston Churchill
Every change…
…. looks like a failure in the middle
– Rosabeth M. Kanter
Change will not…
… come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek
– Barack Obama
The things…
…we fear most in organizations – fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity
– Margaret Wheatley
Beware of…
… those who stand aloof and greet each venture with reproof. The world would stop if things were run by men who say ‘it can’t be done’
– Samuel Glove
The meeting…
… of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed
– Carl Jung
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