Quotes
Authors
Robert Kegan

"Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction."

Source : Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey (2013). “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization”, p.38, Harvard Business Press

Robert Kegan

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“My favorite project is always the next one.”
“Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.”
“To me, the blues is an infection. I don't think it's necessarily a melancholy thing; the blues can be really positive and I think I think anyone and everyone can have a place for the blues. It need not always a woeful, sorrowful thing. It's more reflective; it reminds you to feel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mick Fleetwood from Oct 06, 2015
“I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.”
“I spent the first twenty years of my running career trying to run as many miles as I could as fast as I could. Then I spent the next twenty years trying to figure out how to run the least amount of miles needed to finish a marathon. And I've come to the conclusion the second way is much more enjoyable.”
“Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots”
“We're all connected. Helping another woman is helping yourself, your mother, your sister, your children.”
“Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me â€¦ with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth wings. You trapped me easily, drew me toward you like I was already in the net.”

"Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction."

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