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A few thoughts from the book, "Common Sense for Community Change" by Julie Battle.  I found them helpful.

“Here’s another heads up about thinking. If you are trying to change the way things are done in your community, you are going to go against popular thinking. People may look at you like you have lost it. (You haven’t – you found it.) The radical truth is this – popular thinking is often not only wrong, it’s also restrictive. To challenge popular thinking you must be willing to go outside the norm, But here’s the upside – unpopular thinking is visionary. It cracks open opportunity. And it is a requirement for progress.”

“The reason you are doing this work is because you can’t not do it. When any big change takes place, there are always at least a half dozen people who drive it. They are a force of nature, a small but mighty army. They see the possibilities in every situation – even the negative ones.”

“People have their own agendas. Others get self absorbed. You know it isn’t about personal glory, it’s about achieving the vision.”

 “Nothing exceptional was ever accomplished because people folded at the first sign of fear.”

“Even the most confident people will tell they were uneasy and they had their doubts, but they pushed through it. They gathered the facts, surrounded themselves with good people, anticipated the naysayers and stayed the course.”

 “The difficulty lies not so much  in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones.” John Maynerd Keynes

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