56 Quotes by Charles Handy

We are all prisoners of our past. It is hard to think of things except in the way we have always thought of them. But that solves no problems and seldom changes anything.

Purpose, pattern, and people, the three P's at the heart of life.

Passion is born of vague hopes.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.

If economic progress means that we become anonymous cogs in some great machine, then progress is an empty promise.

Life can only be understood backwards but you have to live it forward. You can only do that by stepping into uncertainty and by trying, within this uncertainty, to create your own islands of security....The new security will be a belief that ...if this doesn't work out you could do something else. You are your own security.

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.