"It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as danger that causes anxiety."

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Source : Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey (2013). “Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization”, p.49, Harvard Business Press

Robert Kegan

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“Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body.”

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“Some people complain there are too many people on earth, Some people complain about secret societies, Some people accuse others of not being able to wake up early. Almost all people complain about something.”
“So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.”
“The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.”
“If I had to pick one tribe to go back and live with permanently - and I hate doing this, it's not a contest - it would be the people of Anuta, in the South Pacific. It's got white beaches, blue seas, good food and gentle, friendly people who have a wonderful philosophy of sharing. And it's warm.”

Source : "My hols: Bruce Parry". Times Online UK, September 16, 2007.
“Success underwater depends mostly on how you conduct yourself. Diving can be the most relaxing experience in the world. Your weight seems to disappear. Space travel will be available only to a few individuals for some time, but the oceans are available to almost everyone - now.”
“I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."”
“Probability theory is nothing but common sense reduced to calculation.”

Source : "Théorie Analytique Des Probabilités". Book by Pierre-Simon Laplace, second edition, 1814.

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