"This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought."

-- John P. Kotter

#Smart Quotes #Successful Quotes #Helping Others Quotes

“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position”

Source : "Malcolm and the Malcontents" by Sarah Ferguson, www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2009.
“Who we are is the result of how we live and act on a daily basis. Our daily actions reflect our prime values and motivations.”

Source : David Frawley, Sandra Summerfield Kozak (2001). “Yoga for Your Type: An Ayurvedic Approach to Your Asana Practice”, p.26, Lotus Press
“I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.”
“When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.”

Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.88, Multnomah
“If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.”
“Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.”
“I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.”
“But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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