John P. Kotter Quotes

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

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• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Novels
  • Writes
  • Scholar

• I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • School
  • Experience
  • War

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • Think
  • Know

• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • People
  • Woman
  • Happiness

• Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Always
  • Find
  • Racism

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.

  

  Navi Rawat
  • People
  • Think
  • Mistake

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Laws
  • Greed
  • Corporations

• The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Hope
  • Influence
  • Promises

• The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Health

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Think
  • Night
  • Fall

• I was actually a Cowboys fan.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Fan
  • Actually
  • Cowboys

• I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Friend
  • Government
  • Evidence

• I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Beginning
  • Look

• What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.

  

  David Horsey
  • Long
  • Family

• These are the materials for reflection which history affords to those who choose to make use of them.

  

  Plutarch
  • History
  • Reflection

• Nicht vor Irrthum zu bewahren, ist die Pflicht des Menschen erziehers; sondern den Irrenden zu leiten, ja ihn seinen Irrthum aus vollen Bechern ausschlürfen zu lassen, das ist Weisheit der Lehrer. Wer seinen Irrthum nur kostet, hält lange damit Haus; er freuet sich dessen als eines seltenen Glücks; aber wer ihn ganz erschöpft, der muß ihn kennenlernen.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• My plan B, if acting doesn't work out, is to work with disabled children.

  

  Maria Valverde
  • Work
  • Children

• I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Different
  • Country
  • Fly

• If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  

  John P. Kotter
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Risk