Quotes About Change

Terrific!" I said, and meant it for a change.

It's always easier to destroy than to create." - ANY GENERAL, ANY ARMY, ANY AGE.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

I wanted to come right out of my chair at the witness table and scream, You guys have been in business for over two hundred years and can't pass routine legislation. How can you be so impatient with a bunch of parliamentarians who've been at it a year after four thousand years of dictatorship?

This means that just when we are comfortable, then we find there is Change. But within us, our ego likes security. Security means constancy in existence, in appearance. Constancy is having. But constancy is not in the world of action. Constancy in the world of action is an illusion. The beingness which we seek cannot be found in appearance. This is because the beingness is in the becoming. The becoming is the essence for it is the pathway toward God.

Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we reenact.

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it disturbs you it's wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.

Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.

I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.

The Innovator's Prescription,

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

And his prospects … they were altered in the Crimea. Everyone who went there was changed by it, everyone who survived was damaged. It was impossible not to be." She brushed the mist from her hair with the back of one hand. "You cannot bathe in blood every night," she said, "and emerge the next morning unstained." Michael

Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, having to do with the fact that the very act of observing something changed the position and course of the thing being observed—at least on the subatomic level.

Nor could I forget my role in the terrible changes that had overtaken him. We shook hands in a manly fashion, and then under Fanny's approving eye, embraced. In my heart, I have always felt a powerful urge towards forgiveness, coupled with the conviction that time can alter anyone, for good or ill. I was prepared to believe that the Lloyd I knew, serial impostor and unwanted suitor, was a new and different man.

he had no doubt that the earth would be a vastly different place—a place where the sword of Damocles hung above it by only the most slender thread, forever after.

One of the most powerful ways to "program" your brain is the kaizen technique of asking small questions.

low-key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity. Just

Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.

Instead of aggressively forcing yourself into a boot-camp mentality about change, give your mind permission to make the leaps on its own schedule, in its own time.