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Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.


John P. Kotter

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P. N. ELROD Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I writ...
P. N. ELROD Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
P. N. ELROD I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implic...
P. L. TRAVERS Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have alw...
P. L. TRAVERS I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure ange...
P. L. TRAVERS My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
P. L. TRAVERS I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, ei...
P. L. TRAVERS You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
P. L. TRAVERS Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. TRAVERS For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I d...
P. L. TRAVERS I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
P. L. TRAVERS You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for childre...
P. L. TRAVERS I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a wi...
P. L. TRAVERS 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own...
P. L. TRAVERS My mom is a sculptress.
P. J. HARVEY I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels...
P. J. HARVEY