"Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases."
- Kurt Lewin
Awareness
"Our behavior is purposeful; we live in a psychological reality or living space that includes not only those parts of our physical and social environment that are important to us but also imagined states that do not currently exist."
- Kurt Lewin
Awareness
"The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning."
- Kurt Lewin
Connection to Earth
"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration."
- Kurt Lewin
Goals
"Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception."
- Kurt Lewin
Focus
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Change
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change