Social action, just like physical action, is steered by perception.

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"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

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."

- Kurt Lewin

Change

"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

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"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

Focus

"The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus."

- Bruce Lee

Focus

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford

Focus

"The key to success is to focus on goals, not obstacles. Let this Tuesday be a day of focus."

Focus

"If you can’t do something, then don’t. Focus on what you can."

- Shiroe

Focus