Quotes About Change

So many of us have moved to another city, and it's across strata, economic divides, educational status etc, but we have found ourselves in a new city with its new challenges. So there is something about 'Dayashankar' that people connect with.

Every organization goes through a lifecycle where they eventually lose their initial speed or agility at a strategic level.

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset. As people have been noting for years, the majority of strategic initiatives that are driven from the top are marginally effective - at best.

Ford had a number of different strategies over the years that they thought obviously made sense at the time, just like all the different brands, and also the regional operations.

No plan survives first contact with the enemy. What matters is how quickly the leader is able to adapt.

It is of the essence of life that it does not begin here or end there, or connect a point of origin with a final destination, but rather that it keeps on going, finding a way through the myriad of things that form, persist and break up in its currents. Life, in short, is a movement of opening, not of closure.

An imagined landscape, then, is a landscape not of being but of becoming: a composition not of objects and surfaces but of movements and stillness, not there to be surveyed but cast in the current of time.

People said, 'When the Russians come, they will give us gas, double our pensions and make our life better.

What was also clear, if you look at the past, is that people here, as in the rest of Ukraine, are always "for" something, because they want their future to be better than their past. In recent history too, supporters of one side or another always point to a referendum in which people have voted for something they approved of, and then ignore the ones where they have voted for something they do not want.

Vind je het goed als ik jou gebruik om mijn leven aan diggelen te gooien?

It was strange. I was already looking at something as it had been. History looked so calm.

Eight in the morning, clear sky, already ninety degrees in the shade, the world was nothing like it had been yesterday.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

Lord have mercy on my next thirty years

In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: Web 1.0 Web 2.0 DoubleClick --> Google AdSense Ofoto --> Flickr

Prepare for surprises in the second part, where everything changes so that much can remain the same.

When despair brings home the bacon and self-esteem with it, it's hard to let it go. 'When you are suffering enough,' I suggested, 'I mean so much that it's simply impossible to go on, then something will give and the stories will change, like it or not.

Do books, after all, change anything? For all their proverbial liberalism, have they made the world more liberal? Or have they offered the fig leaf that allows us to go on as we were, liberal in our reading and conservative in our living. Perhaps art is more part of the problem than the solution; we may be going to hell, but look how well we write about it, look at our paintings and operas and tragedies.

Nothing is more obsolete than yesterday's vision of the future.

For as the poets and the warriors fell by the wayside the bureaucrats took over.

the phase of daring escapades, of raids and rallies, gave way to the inevitable grimmer phase when the implications of the war began to strike home to everybody.

On the one hand the Irish began to prove the truth of the assertion that successful revolutions are in fact no more than the kicking down of an already rotted door.