Quotes About Change

When change is required, there must be trust that the initiatives for that change will be dealt with appropriately.

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. —Will Rogers

When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem; we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.—Eric Hoffer

It takes more energy than most people realize to unhook out of one set of behaviors and get into another kind of rhythm and tool set.

The value of a future goal is the present change it fosters.

It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action.

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year. I

Organizations are now almost universally in morph mode, with ever-changing goals, products, partners, customers, markets, technologies, and owners. These all, by necessity, shake up structures, forms, roles, and accountabilities.

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcome is;

Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year.

It's called evolution. You must know that. Yes, we are.' She looked up from her book. 'I would hope, though,' she went on, 'that we also have some rather more beautiful ancestors. Don't you?' --Mina

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said.

Galb?t mes amžini kažkaip kitaip...

There's no end to evolution.

I feel the thinness of me, the littleness of me, and the vastness and the weirdness of me. I become the darkness all around, I become the night. Tomorrow I will be a different Davie, and I will be the day.

It's so strange: grown-ups trying to become young, young ones trying to grow up and all the time, whatever people want, time moves forward, forward.

These supersurvivors radically deviate from their previous life paths, often transforming the worst thing that's happened to them into the best.

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.

There is real happiness to be gained from being able to distinguish between things that cannot be changed and things that should be changed.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it.

Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.

There was a time when Stone would have rated a platoon of crackerjack killers coming for him by land, sea and air. Those days apparently were over. A quartet of suits in a Cadillac on steroids was enough.

That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past. Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.