Quotes
Authors
James M. Kouzes

"It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow."

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1987). “The leadership challenge: how to get extraordinary things done in organizations”, Jossey-Bass, 1988

James M. Kouzes

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“It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.”

Source : "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.
“A faerie heart is different from a human heart. Human hearts are elastic. They have room for all sorts of passions, and they can break and heal and love again and again. Faerie hearts are evolutionarily less sophisticated. They are small and hard, like tiny grains of sand. Our hearts are too small to love more than one person in a lifetime.”
“Obedience is a choice. It is a choice between our own limited knowledge & power & God's unlimited wisdom & omnipotence.”
“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.”
“We didn't know each other [with Larry Kramer at Yale], but we had a lot of mutual friends.”
“I would love to do more private concerts.”
“I feel that I'm more of a speed player, being able to rush the edge with a lot of speed coming around the corner. But I also have the athletic ability to cover and play in space.”

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“In America, we believe that our happiness depends on getting breaks, even though being American is already the biggest break we will ever get.”

"It is striking how our language reveals the visual nature of our thoughts about the future state of affairs. When we invent the future, we try to get a mental picture of what things will be like long before we have begun the journey. Visions are our windows on the world of tomorrow."

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