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> [“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.' This book is about human being as an activity. It is not about the doing which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/a-writer-has-to-strain-to-make-the-reader-recover-the-process-in-the/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

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## More by Robert Kegan

> [Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/successfully-functioning-in-a-society-with-diverse-values-traditions/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“The struggle of the sexes to know each other, to see each other, and to communicate deeply - a struggle which may be more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/the-struggle-of-the-sexes-to-know-each-other-to-see-each-other-and-to/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“Although I have suggested that American culture tends to favor the side of independence over the side of inclusion (and I would extend that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/although-i-have-suggested-that-american-culture-tends-to-favor-the/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [It is not change that causes anxiety; it is the feeling that we are without defenses in the presence of what we see as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/it-is-not-change-that-causes-anxiety-it-is-the-feeling-that-we-are/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“But what can be found can also be lost. The process of differentiation, creating the possibility of integration, brings into being the lifelong theme…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/but-what-can-be-found-can-also-be-lost-the-process-of-differentiation/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“If you want to understand another person in some fundamental way you must know where the person is in his or her evolution...the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/if-you-want-to-understand-another-person-in-some-fundamental-way-you/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“While the emergence from embeddedness in the interpersonal frees one from the subjectivity of constructing one's morality on the bases of arbitrary affections and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/while-the-emergence-from-embeddedness-in-the-interpersonal-frees-one/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“Depression characterized by the 'threat-to' orientation lodges itself in one side of the proposition. Doing so does not eliminate doubt, it only places it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/depression-characterized-by-the-threat-to-orientation-lodges-itself/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“It is easy for us to delude ourselves into thinking that our notions of the healthy person are unbiased by our particular circumstances or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/it-is-easy-for-us-to-delude-ourselves-into-thinking-that-our-notions/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“Instead of regarding them as things that just need to go away, we look at the behaviors as a precious resource, valuable information that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/instead-of-regarding-them-as-things-that-just-need-to-go-away-we-look/)

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> [“All growth is costly. It involves the leaving behind of an old way of being in the world. Often it involves, at least for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/all-growth-is-costly-it-involves-the-leaving-behind-of-an-old-way-of/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/a-writer-has-to-strain-to-make-the-reader-recover-the-process-in-the/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“Emergence from embeddedness involves a kind of repudiation, an evolutionary re-cognition that what before was me is not-me. This we see, too, on a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/emergence-from-embeddedness-involves-a-kind-of-repudiation-an/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [Learning is the making of meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/learning-is-the-making-of-meaning/)

[Robert Kegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kegan/)

> [“How do we help people (whether individuals or groups) to make their third column commitments visible? We begin by surfacing the biggest fears that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kegan/how-do-we-help-people-whether-individuals-or-groups-to-make-their/)

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