John P. Kotter Quotes

IBM needed - an enormous sense of urgency.

I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

The time for change is now.

The progress has to start now.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.

This nation is asking for action and action now.

You need a real crisis before you have reforms.

The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

Tomorrow will be too late, it's now or never.

Decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Now is our time to change the world

In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!

There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.

The world needs change, change needs an activity. It has to be planted by a thought.

This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

It is for us to see the Kingdom of God as always coming, always pressing in on the present, always big with possibility, and always inviting immediate action

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.

But here's the ugly truth: nature doesn't care about democracy, or who's right, or what's fair. And because of the slow-change aspect of climate, we can't wait until the worst effects are upon us to make a decision -- by then, it would be far, far too late. The scenario we may be faced with is one where doing something for the wrong reasons, run by the wrong people, may still save more lives than holding out for a more appealing option.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Priority is a function of context.

Now is the time to be doing, now is the time to be stirring, now is the time to amend myself.