“The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“The change "grief cycle", for some people, may be excitement, enthusiasm, engagement, effort, and excellence.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.”
Source: The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture
“Our need for social and personal change and power is often co-opted and trivialized into an adolescent and self-centered kind of rebellion.”
Source: Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
“I want you to know that some journeys have ends, but not this one. This one will change you. Irrevocably." "Don't all journeys change you?" "It isn't the same." He leaned forward. "I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars." "What did you find?" His voice turned lethally soft. "That it's just the beginning.”
Source: Spin the Dawn
“All of you gotta protect our town. The name they gave us is Bofurin. The chime of the wind breaker. Live up to that name. Protect the people, the things, the memories... protect everything that's important to you.”
“Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe”
Source: Notes from the Universe Coloring Book
“Poetry could surely slow a guy down.”
Source: Adjustments
“Poetry can be a peculiar gateway, Will. It can be a way into all kinds of things that don’t seem to have a way in, or that we don’t even know we want in.”
Source: Adjustments
“The Christian life is a state of thankful discontent or joyful dissatisfaction. That is, I live every day thankful for the grace that has changed my life, but I am not satisfied. Why not? Because, when I look at myself honestly, I have to admit that I am not all I can be in Christ. I am thankful for the many things in my life that would not be there without his grace, but I will not settle for a partial inheritance!”
Source: How People Change