"The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible."

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Source : Rosabeth Moss Kanter (1984). “Change Masters”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#Change Quotes #Design Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.”
“If you want a dancer's body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It's very frustrating if people think you have to become a dancer to do it - you don't.”

Source : "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.
“Worry is the most popular form of suicide. Worry impairs appetite, disturbs sleep, makes respiration irregular, spoils digestion, irritates disposition, warps character, weakens mind, stimulates disease, and saps bodily health. It is the real cause of death in thousands of instances where some other disease is named on the death certificate.”

Source : William George Jordan (1901). “The kingship of self-control [from Self-control, its kingship and majesty] by W.G. Jordon [sic].”
“Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.”

Source : William Warburton, William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester: To which is Prefixed a Discourse by Way of General Preface, Containing Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author”, p.135
“Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.”
“Whatever the challenge was, however unattainable the goal may have seemed, I never let anyone talk me out of believing in myself.”
“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”
“Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.”

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