Quotes about change
change organization community
Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change. Peter Drucker
change firm great-change
All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.
change mean responsibility
But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.
change manage
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.
change wise future
The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
change teacher educational
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
change yesterday logic
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
change world violence
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. Martin Scorsese
change order desire
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order. Marie Antoinette
change acceptance winning
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. Max Planck
change shepherds changing-your-life
What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd." Max Lucado
change way stories
Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life. Mason Cooley
change regret celebrate
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.
change mother father
Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.
change familiar
The familiar changes as we cling to it.
change things-change written
Everything changes as it is written down.
change details politician
Politicians love change, but of details only.
change art works-of-art
Every work of art changes its predecessors.
change past trying
Many try to force the past to change.
change crime accepted
Change often makes accepted customs into crimes.
change
We make some changes. But mostly changes make us.
change score sophistication
Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.
change
I resist change even as I call for it.
change things-change enough
A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.
change ducks risk
Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.
change feel-better literature
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
change country military
There is no reason for anyone in the country, for anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use, a handgun. The only way to control handguns use in this country is to prohibit the guns. And the only way to do that is to change the Constitution. Michael Gartner
change needs too-much
Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it. Michael Chang
change memories book
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way. Michael Connelly
change regret book
I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.
change letting-go real
...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from negative to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that. Melody Beattie
change ozone moral
There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger. Michael Josephson
change progress way
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. Marie Curie