Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Tom Peters

Accept change as a friend. And don't take yourself too seriously.

Tom Peters

The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.

Tom Peters

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

Tom Peters

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Tom Peters

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

Steve Wozniak

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Stephen Covey

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

Stephen Covey

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Stephen Covey

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Stephen Covey

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Stephen Covey

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Viktor E. Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Vanilla Ice

You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

Vachel Lindsay

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Sutton Foster

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

Susan Jeffers

Don't be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around; the path that needs changing is the one in your mind.

Sun Tzu

Those who are victorious plan effectively and change decisively. They are like a great river that maintains its course but adjusts its flow.

Sue Grafton

You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.

Steven Tyler

We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.

Robert Burns

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.

Robert Burns

See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

Robbie Williams

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

Ricky Williams

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

T. Harv Eker

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

T. Harv Eker

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it's what's under the ground that creates what's above the ground. That's why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile. You cannot change the fruits that are already hanging on the tree. You can, however, change tomorrow's fruits. But to do so, you will have to dig below the ground and strengthen the roots.

T. S. Eliot

In the life of one man, never The same time returns.

Susan Sontag

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.