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Kurt Lewin

"The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance."

Source : Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper

Kurt Lewin

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“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”
“No one, no social group, can today avoid the commitment to contribute to the clean up of public finances in order to prevent the financial collapse of Italy. The sacrifices will not be in vain, especially if the economy begins to grow again”

Source : "European leaders predict 2012 will be worse than 2011" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2012.
“By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.”
“Yet while nature is in constant flux, we always go against the grain and try to freeze our ideas and experiences and make them absolute. It is egotism that makes us identify with one opinion rather than another, become quarrelsome and unkind, say *this* could not mean *that*, and think we have a duty to change others to suit ourselves.”
“People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.”
“If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.”

Source : Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 12, 2007.
“When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.”
“My whole thing is, if you love me, then love me. If you don't, then believe what you hear and run with that.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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