John P. Kotter Quotes

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

We can't create change until we recognize and check our own actions.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

Emotional intelligence grows through perception. Look around at your present situation and observe it through the level of feeling.

The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.

We can only begin to change the world around us when we are willing to become a conscious part of all that is changing.

Awareness is always the first step.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Things do not change; we change.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

I think, for one, we have to really accept that anger is a normal human emotion that can be a positive force for change.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

I think I surprise myself.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

Ideas do not count for much unless they change the lives of men.