“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
—Henri L. Bergson

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are”
—Talmudic adage

ON CHOICE

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.”
—Alfred A. Montapert

“In a few hundred years, when the history of our time is written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event those historians will see is not technology, not the internet, not ecommerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally- substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.”
—Peter Drucker

ON AUTHENTICITY

“The primitive fear in organizations is if you stand up you will be shot.”
— Peter Block

"Most of us feel that others will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. We would rather defend our dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others; and having rationalized our phoniness into nobility, we settle for superficial relationships."
—Author Unknown

ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

"Goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.”
—Daniel Goleman

"The danger of communication is to assume that it has occurred”
— George Bernard Shaw

“Perhaps the most central characteristic of authentic leadership is the relinquishing of the impulse to dominate others.”
—David Cooper

“In any situation, the person who can most accurately describe reality without laying blame will emerge as the leader, whether designated or not.”
—Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.”
— Woodrow Wilson

ON INQUIRY

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
—Decouvertes

"If you never change your mind, why have one?”
—Edward De Bono

“If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions, whom would you ask and what would you ask?”
—Susan Scott, Fierce Conversations

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties."
—Erich Fromm

ON TRANSFORMATION

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.”
—Charles Darwin

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
—Carl Rogers

"Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery