Quotes About Change

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones. -Calvin Coolidge

Telephone books are, like dictionaries, already out of date the moment they are printed....

The pessimist's nostalgia, deteriorism goes far beyond simply whining that things used to be better and takes the bold stance that the world is actively and energetically going to hell in a handbasket. also

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

A birthday is a good time to begin anew; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them on again.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

The less of routine, the more of life.

The less routine the more life.

When a man's own culture falls behind that of his time, he is conservative. When it outstrips and enables him to over-see his time, he is a reformer.

everything, every speck of dust, every drop of water continue to exist eternally, albeit in different forms, except for my soul?

A cruel man cannot change another man's destiny.

I had forgotten that things might change in future and that promise was a debt.

Fewer longtermers means more rookies. In the 103rd Congress (1993–1995), one of the highest turnover periods, 11 of 19 House Intelligence Committee members and 7 of 17 Senate Intelligence Committee members were serving for the first time.

For example, the neurochemicals produced by healthy relationships can help melt pathways for bad habits and solidify new pathways that are more desirable.)

The fiercest emotional pain has the power to swallow you whole if you are stationary long enough.

You know, the crisis passes, the crucible cools, and there we are, slightly improved, not much altered.

We had agreed that "in love" had burned out after four years for us, the way it does for most of us, in two months or two years and, I guess, never for some lucky people. Instead of a trail of fire roaring through, those people get small candles steadily lighting the way home until death do they part, and only the young are stupid enough to think that those two old people, him gimping, her squinting, are not in love.

Cheating and covering up are natural by-products of a top-down culture that does not accept "no" or "it can't be done" for an answer. But combining this culture with a belief that a brilliant strategy formulated in the past will hold indefinitely into the future becomes a certain recipe for failure.

workarounds delay or prevent process improvement. The problems that trigger workarounds can be seen as small signals of a need for change in a system or process. The workaround bypasses the problem, thereby silencing the signal by getting the immediate job done – but getting it done in a way that is inefficient over the longer term.

There is no such thing as a straight line, the sun does not go down, and it is time we updated our language. A more mesmerizing discourse I have never heard.

When Uber's new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi, first came on board in August 2017, one of his priorities was to meet with women engineers. Alert to the damage done to the company's culture, he began by laying the groundwork for a psychologically safe workplace. As Jessica Bryndza, Uber's Global Director of People Experience, commented, "He [Khosrowshahi] didn't come in guns blazing. He came in listening."58 The operative word here is "listening.

For over a century, we've focused too much on relentless execution and depended too much on fear to get things done. That era is over.

And that's how I outsmarted myself, changing our lives forever.

at different times in the past, both the American Left and the American Right have stood for group-transcending values. Neither does today.