"Leaders must wake people out of inertia. They must get people excited about something they've never seen before, something that does not yet exist."

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Source : "3 Ways to Innovate in a Stagnant Environment". "The Business" with Brian Kenny, www.hbs.edu. March 11, 2014.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#Inspirational Quotes #People Quotes #Leader Quotes

“But it's silly to suggest the writing of poetry is something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing, devastating emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. ... It doesn't come to you on the wings of a dove. It's something you have to work hard at.”

Source : Louise Bogan, Ruth Limmer (1981). “Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic”, Viking Pr
“Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.”
“Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.”
“Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.”
“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
“We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.”
“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pinesâ€”generous, gum-yielding treesâ€”to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”

Source : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin
“All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.”

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