Quotes About Resistance

In this city, apparently, the authorities crushed revolutions before they started, by turning them into homework.

Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, Reconstruction to the very last.

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Our culture works hard to prevent change.

That voice is the resistance your lizard brain and it wants you to be average (and safe)

Those places that felt safe—the corner office, the famous college, the secure job—aren't. You're holding back, betting on a return to normal, but in the new normal, your resistance to change is no longer helpful.

Every time you find yourself following the manual instead of writing the manual, you're avoiding the anguish and giving in to the resistance.

Average feels safe, but it's not. It's invisible. It's the last choice—the path of least resistance. The temptation to be average is just another kind of quitting…the kind to be avoided. You deserve better than average.

Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even more resistance. Products, services, career paths—whatever it is, the forces for mediocrity will align to stop you, forgiving no errors and never backing down until it's over. If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued.

Some people decide that their art is important enough that they ought to overcome the resistance they face in doing their work. Those people become linchpins.

The reason so many effective solutions take forever to get implemented is that the fear of change is greater than the cost of sticking with what you've got. In other words, people wait until they have a heart attack or get diabetes before they go on a diet.

Shipping an idea went from taking a month by boat to a few days by plane to overnight by Federal Express to a few minutes by fax to a moment by e-mail to instantaneous by Twitter. Now what? Will it arrive yesterday? So, what's left is to make—to give—art. What's left is the generosity and humanity worth paying for. What's left is to take that resistance (the very same resistance we embraced and rewarded for decades) and destroy it.

Why is it that a common, safe, and important task is so feared by so many people? In Iconoclast, Gregory Berns uses his experience running a neuroscience research lab to explain the biological underpinnings of the resistance. In fact, public speaking is the perfect petri dish for exposing what makes us tick. It turns out that the three biological factors that drive job performance and innovation are social intelligence, fear response, and perception.

Forward motion isn't the default state of any group of people, particularly groups with lots of people.

Everyone who creates feels resistance, everyone that is seriously involved in inventing original work feels the fear, that's not the question. The question is where do you put the fear.

Why is shipping so difficult? I think there are two challenges and one reason: The challenges: 1. Thrashing 2. Coordination And the reason: The resistance.

The Two Reasons Seeing the Future Is So Difficult Attachment to an outcome combined with the resistance and fear of change.

Orang yang sudah kalah akan menggunakan tipuan apapun untuk membela diri.

A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost...

Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep.

I will not yield, To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet, And to be baited with the rabble's curse. Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, And thou opposed, being of no woman born, Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!

Mrs. Mudkin closed her eyes. We should pray. I ain't praying, Crazy Cora said. Mrs. Mudkin said, Lord, please bless--- I ain't praying. --this land and the people who-- I ain't praying. --have toiled on this earth-- Stop that praying. I can pray if I want to. Then be quiet about it.

Messages continued to arrive from the Earl of Warwick, urging Londoners to hold firm for King Harry. Marguerite d'Anjou and her son were expected to land at any time, while from St Albans, Edward sent word that Harry of Lancaster was to be considered a prisoner of state. At that, John Stockton, the Mayor of London, contracted a diplomatic virus and took to his bed.

We literally paid for our own oppression.