"Changing behavior is less a matter of giving people analysis to influence their thoughts than helping them to see a truth to influence their feelings."

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Source : John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2013). “The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations”, p.14, Harvard Business Press

John P. Kotter

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“The Constitution was definitely and specifically designed to hobble all people who are so foolish as to think themselves capable of leading others by compulsion. It so functions today to an extent exasperating to the authoritarians - which is why they want to get rid of it.”
“They say the movies should be more like life; I think life should be more like the movies.”

Source : James Kotsilibas-Davis, Myrna Loy (1987). “Myrna Loy: being and becoming”, Alfred A. Knopf
“I think blogging and the ability to instantaneously respond to news items has changed the way we approach all media. We're seeing people talking back to columnists, and going much further in the sexual realm than most papers, even alternative weeklies, will publish. I'm surprised more papers aren't having people do what you're doing with an online only column, and to be honest, I read almost all the media I do read online, and plenty of other people do, too, so I don't know what's stopping them.”
“In systemic searches for embryonic lethal mutants of Drosophila melanogaster we have identified 15 loci which when mutated alter the segmental patterns of the larva. These loci probably represent the majority of such genes in Drosophila. The phenotypes of the mutant embryos indicate that the process of segmentation involves at least three levels of spatial organization: the entire egg as developmental unit, a repeat unit with the length of two segments, and the individual segment.”
“It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.”
“God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.”
“Coaching my own kid is driving both him and me crazy”
“There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.”

Source : "The interview: Jay McInerney" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2009.

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