Quotes About Change

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.

Eventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn't require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness

Now you can do as I do, stand outside and criticize, bring pressure if you can, write and argue about it. All of this may do some good. But nothing of substance will happen unless there are people inside these institutions who are able to (and want to) lead them into better performance for the public good. Some of you ought to make careers inside these big institutions and become a force for good—from the inside.

Typically, today, somebody in top management meets with a consultant, reads a book, gets excited about a new idea, and begins to talk about it.

If we do not agree to reduce cruelty and moderate a situation intolerable for human beings," she said, "then they themselves will take things in hand.

There is no such thing as the person who at age thirty-five suddenly changes from being perfectly normal and erupts into totally evil, disruptive, murderous behavior. The behaviors that are precursors to murder have been present and developing in that person's life for a long, long time- since childhood.

innovation is discouraged in most bureaucracies

The better idea doesn't have to win just because it is a better idea.

more than we understand, most people deal constantly with fear. "I'm not afraid," we know you are saying to yourself right now. "I feel fine." And you are right. You do not feel your fear. The reason you do not is because you are dealing with it. Though you are not aware of it, you have created a very effective anxiety-management system, and that system is what we call the immunity to change.

How do we help people (whether individuals or groups) to make their third column commitments visible? We begin by surfacing the biggest fears that arise in considering doing the opposite of any or all of the second-column behaviors. In

Any honest person working in a DDO will tell you there are times she would like a holiday from the DDO experience, but after you've worked in one, an ordinary workplace becomes for many the nice place to visit and not the place where you want to live.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

Proof of our society's decline is that Halloween has become a broad daylight event for many.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you. —Nietzsche

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

Stop blaming me, thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.

more John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing

I like Sanders a lot...but I think his time may have passed.

As the citizens of the former Soviet Union are discovering to their consternation, a market system means the end of the long lines for bread that were a curse of life in a society of centralized command, but it also means the introduction of a line that did not exist formerly—namely, standing in line at employment offices, looking for work.

Robert L. Heilbroner

This strength, this enlivening influence, this spiritual change does not come to us just because we work harder or longer hours. It comes as a result of working smarter, working in conjunction with the Lord God Omnipotent. President Brigham Young testified, "My faith is, when we have done all we can, then the Lord is under obligation, and will not disappoint the faithful; He will perform the rest.