John P. Kotter
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God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON ROBERT GREENE CLINT EASTWOOD MATSHONA DHLIWAYO KATHARINE WHITEHORN WALTER BAGEHOT [Wireless security] is less and less a technology issue and more a policy issue. For a while, the mo... MARLIN FORBES Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common s... SAVITRI DEVI Oddly enough, we feel more pressure than when he was with us. Now, everyone wants to see what we're ... GEORGE HINCAPIE I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and ... DAVID PACKARD KATHARINE WHITEHORN KATHARINE WHITEHORN I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get... ADAM HUGHES Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to. JENNIFER NETTLES Speaking less and doing more says more. KAYAMBILA MPULAMASAKA In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words. MASON COOLEY The good news is that positive construal can be taught. “We can make ourselves more or less vulner... MARIA KONNIKOVA He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, bec... CHARLES COLES MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA MICHAEL POLLAN J.K. ROWLING If some musicians put more energy into their own craft, they'd be less likely to attack the artist t... LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS A little less worry over the child and a bit more concern about the world we make for the child to l... ADOLPH MEYER BILL MOYERS SAMUEL GOMPERS As with most things in life, a healthy balance will keep us on the right path. To avoid too much eye... SUSAN C. YOUNG THOMAS SOWELL His best position is tailback and he's more comfortable there, but we may continue to use him there ... HUD VENERABLE KONRAD LORENZ Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ... MICHAEL GARRETT MARINO Actually, guard is a little bit easier. There's less stuff to worry about, less stuff to evaluate. A... BRIAN LEGGETT The only principle which will make you more content, less bitter is to live a life that has "Less ex... ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA The more you pay attention to today, the less you worry about tomorrow. SUPERNA BATHEJA The more positive you feel about yourself, the less anxious you feel - and will tend to stutter less... AMY JOHNSON Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More co... RANDALL ROBINSON CLINT EASTWOOD It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to... HERBIE HANCOCK I feel more comfortable in a place like Brighton - a town, with one centre, one bus station, one tra... GABRIELLE APLIN GRETCHEN RUBIN I feel a lot more comfortable with each game. Things seem to get easier and more natural for me. JOE AYOOB One of the great debates about the Internet is whether it is making people more or less free. ADAM COHEN R. LEE ERMEY My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. IRWIN SHAW HENRY SPENCER Our imperfections make us unique and also BEAUTIFUL. Some beautiful things are more impressive when ... ANGIE KARAN GEORGE SANTAYANA WILLIAM J. MAYO The snow-less winters makes them more vulnerable to predators. The lower elevations of their range w... ED ZYGMUNT PHIL MCGRAW The more you feel anger, the less likely you are to put your best effort into the job and the less l... DONALD GIBSON EMMA WATSON HENRY DAVID THOREAU NEVILLE MARRINER The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like vict... DAVID RICHO SYDNEY J. HARRIS We know they are less likely to be restrained and more likely to be improperly and unsafely seated i... CHRISTENE JENNINGS We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably. PAUL GILLMOR Bowie is less about trappings and more about the traps that seek to limit human potential. MARK PAYTRESS BOB RILEY Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and l... IAN HISLOP ANTHONY ROBBINS TONY ROBBINS ALBERT CAMUS They feel more comfortable speaking in Spanish. They feel that they're getting their point across --... MARIO GARZA DAVID JENKINS GERMANY KENT FRED ROGERS PETER KREEFT CRISS JAMI We, the vulnerable, have to wear costumes in order to feel safe, or to feel less unsafe. GARNETTE CADOGAN He's the equal of Hitchcock in building mood and suspense, a little less obvious than Hitchcock, a l... BRUCE GOLDSTEIN Time is never earned........ it is spent. We all live life spending the time that is given to us. So... TREVOR KOERNER Powerpoint success: When it comes to presentation do it more like Steve Jobs and less like Bill Gate... LILY CHATTERJEE GEORGE ORWELL HENRI NOUWEN One's sense of control is both a precursor and a consequence of age-related losses in memory. Our st... MARGIE LACHMAN ANON. ANONYMOUS
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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the ... JOHN P. KOTTER Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales... JOHN P. KOTTER Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together a... JOHN P. KOTTER The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industri... JOHN P. KOTTER If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, t... JOHN P. KOTTER In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things th... JOHN P. KOTTER A higher rate of urgency does not imply ever-present panic, anxiety, or fear. It means a state in wh... JOHN P. KOTTER Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organi... JOHN P. KOTTER Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead... JOHN P. KOTTER Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it. JOHN P. KOTTER The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have... JOHN P. KOTTER We are always creating new tools and techniques to help people, but the fundamental framework is rem... JOHN P. KOTTER We started Kotter International to improve leaders' ability to deal with big, important transfor... JOHN P. KOTTER People are more inclined to be drawn in if their leader has a compelling vision. Great leaders help ... JOHN KOTTER Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of... JOHN KOTTER Management is about coping with complexity. JOHN KOTTER With the furious pace of change in business today, difficulty to manage relationships sabotages more... JOHN KOTTER A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy. JOHN KOTTER Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs... JOHN KOTTER We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is ... JOHN KOTTER Great communicators have an appreciation for positioning. They understand the people they're trying ... JOHN KOTTER Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there; they cause chang... JOHN KOTTER Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demor... JOHN KOTTER In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. JOHN P. ROCHE No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their s... JOHN P. ZENGER JOHN P. MASCOTTE JOHN P. GRIER JOHN P. GRIER I've been more bossed by my fortune than it has been bossed by me. JOHN P. LIPPETT When words become unclear, I shall focus with prayer. When opinions become inadequate, I shall be co... JOHN P. SCHILLER You cannot solve your problems with the same thinking that created them. JOHN P. SCHILLER JOHN P. GRIER The average American doesn't know the difference between a Contra and a caterpillar or between a San... JOHN P. EAST Our work calls on us to confront, with our patients and within ourselves, extraordinary human experi... JOHN P. WILSON [He was] not a Soviet apologist. [He] did not believe in anything at all. He is the type of modern m... JOHN P. VUKASIN JR. As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a... P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take... P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a... P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ... P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi... P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government. P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind. P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented. P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context. P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence. P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty. P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues. P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many. P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively. P. 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Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked wh... 
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated... 
The more important a call to action is to our soul's evolution, the more Resistance we will feel... 
Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety make... 
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning. 
Less is more. 
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the l... 
Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, f... 
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more... 
Thinking more than others about our own thoughts is not self-centeredness. It means that if asked wh... 
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Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. 
Most men had rather say a smart thing than do a good one. John P. Kotter, Leading Change -Josh Bill... 
A scientist knows more & more about less & less till he knows everything about nothing while a philo... 
The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. 
The enlightened worry less than others,
The rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. 
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people. 
The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you. 
Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, ... 
More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply wo... 
Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. 
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or ad... 
We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do. 
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more l... 
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for th... 
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to ... 
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prej... 
Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you... 
I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap. 
Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More se... 
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes som... 
A specialist is a man who knows more and more about less and less. 
A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now. 
My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder. 
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more m... 
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not ... 
Once we assuage our conscience by calling something a necessary evil, it begins to look more and mor... 
Government does not create jobs. It only helps create the conditions that make jobs more or less lik... 
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ... 
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ... 
What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true ... 
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more. 
The most attractive thing about you should have less to do with your face or body and more to do wit... 
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. Whe... 
No books is more fascinating than the Bible. And no books are less fascinating than most of our comm... 
For the believer, humility is honesty about one's greatest flaws to a degree in which he is fearless... 
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si... 
Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reve... 
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everythi... 
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everythi... 
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door. 
Life is so unfair that one is more likely to get into some sort of trouble than be rewarded if one a... 
You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime. 
The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ... 
We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master&... 
Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going ... 
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a p... 
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant... 
Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the wor... 
First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants. 
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and ... 
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot. 
I feel like we all have our skeletons. 
A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. 
Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do ... 
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own. 
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. 
If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I... 
Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,... 
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. 