Rosabeth Moss Kanter Quotes

I am whatever you make me, nothing more. I am your belief in yourself, your dream of what a people may become.... I am the clutch of an idea, and the reasoned purpose of resolution. I am no more than you believe me to be and I am all that you believe I can be. I am whatever you make me, nothing more.

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we can be

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

You are what you think you are.

What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

We can do only what we think we can do. We can be only what we think we can be. We can have only what we think we can have. What we do, what we are, what we have, all depend upon what we think.

Our beliefs are like the unquestioned commands, telling us how things are, what's possible and what's impossible, what we can and can not do.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

You are the way you are because that is what you believe about yourself.

Never run away with the idea that it doesn't matter much what we believe or think; it does. What we believe and think, we are; not what we say we believe and think, but what we really do believe and think, we are; there is no divorce at all.

I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are.

Having a self, even a simple self, allows you to look into the world and put a mark over what is more important and less important. It's a way of classifying the world in terms of your own needs.

If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

I am not fundamentally a musician, I am fundamentally a human being.