Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947–2011) Israeli physicist and management guru
The goal: a process of ongoing improvement (1984)
Weill Says Citigroup CEO May Have to Revise Strategy, 2007-12-12 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ao4zpTsefceU&refer=home,
Eliyahu M. Goldratt (1947–2011) Israeli physicist and management guru
The goal: a process of ongoing improvement (1984)
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition (2008), ed. William Baer, p. 70
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Mudam-se os tempos, mudam-se as vontades
Rollo May book Love and Will
Source: Love and Will (1969), p. 100
Context: When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks but in our whole experience of what we are doing in the world. Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects … Love is the answer, we sing. … our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic — albeit desperate — conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.
“It takes 11 guys to change the world. It takes five to change a university. We can do this.”
Robert P. George (1955) American legal scholar
2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Presidential campaign address, Miami, Florida, (September 1956), as quoted in Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56 (1957) edited by James Beasley Simpson
“We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
Michael Franti (1966) American rapper
Michael Franti Interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s75CPceiCw&feature=related