Quotes About Change

manufacturing started in earnest. It was when all the rules by which

it takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic's equilibrium.

a radical and transformative thought goes nowhere without the willingness to challenge convention.

became a flood. In 1894 alone, some twelve hundred Rosetans applied for passports to America, leaving entire streets of their old village abandoned. The Rosetans began buying land on a rocky hillside connected to Bangor by a steep

what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

We are all, at heart, gradualists, our expectations set by the steady passage of time. But the world of the Tipping Point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than possibility. It is—contrary to all our expectations—a certainty.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions — we can alter the way we thin-slice — by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.

think we get in trouble when this process of editing is disrupted—when we can't edit, or we don't know what to edit, or our environment doesn't let us edit.

Wealthy people get special insider deals, and if you and I lived in a country where the tax system was so blatantly illegitimate—where nothing seemed fair, and where our voices weren't heard, and where the rules changed from one day to the next—we wouldn't pay our taxes either.

When the police cracked down, did the sex workers simply move one or two streets over? ... Was there displacement? There was not. It turns out that most [sex workers] would rather try something else, leave the field entirely, change their behavior, than shift their location.

He watched David approach, first with scorn, then with surprise, and then with what can only have been horror—as it dawned on him that the battle he was expecting had suddenly changed shape.

The name given to that one dramatic moment in an epidemic when everything can change all at once is the Tipping Point.

Malcolm Gladwell

In the end, tipping points are a reaffirmation of a potential for change and the power of intelligent action. Look at the world around you: It may seem like an immovable, implacable place; it is not. With the slightest push, in just the right place, it can be tipped.

If everyone needs to think outside the box, maybe it is the box that needs fixing.

Wolf and Bruhn had to convince the medical establishment to think about health and heart attacks in an entirely new way: they had to get them to realize that they wouldn't be

Rarely does someone start a revolution alone, at his mother's kitchen table.

iÅŸleriyle aralar?ndaki iliÅŸkide dönüÅŸüm yaratma f?rsat?.

Toate veÅŸtile noi sunt veÅŸti vechi care se întâmpl? unor oameni noi.

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.