“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.” ThinkingKnowsMenGivingFirstsMayMeanProblemAgePastBlackChangeLearningCenturyFilledHonestlyObedienceBigotryInferiorsTerrifiedSubmissionPreconceptionsUnlearn Author:Gloria Steinem
“Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.” FirstsFactsProcessChangeCenturyMastersSkillsTwentiesConstantCriticalRapidsFacts Of LifeLeadership SkillsProcess Of ChangeRapid Change Book:Thinking In The Future Tense Source: Thinking In The Future Tense
“This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.” PeopleTryingIdeasDoneLastsChangeCenturyStructureMentalityDictatorshipIdeologicalColonization Author:Pope Francis