Quotes About Change

That Schmidt, he didn't have enough imagination for mathematics. Now he has become a poet. For that he had just enough.

The Book of Proverbs contains a warning that speaks to us in our uncertain state: "Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."14 Those who believe they are changing the world, or saving the planet, or transforming the human race, are intoxicated with self-aggrandizing pride. As secular "redeemers," a haughty spirit is their second nature. Consequently, they are deaf to this biblical wisdom.

Every Communist revolution begins as a rape of the present and continues as a cannibalization of the past.

It was what I believed to be the humanity of the Marxist idea that made me what I was then; it is the inhumanity of what I have seen to be the Marxist reality that has made me what I am now.

The personal dream of every radical is to be at the center of creation and the renewal of the world.

It needs to be borne in mind that there are always, and inevitably, two sides to the revolutionary coin. The first is negative and destructive, and leads to the drive to undermine the beliefs, values and institutions of the old order, which must be destroyed before a new one can be created. The second component of the revolutionary vision is positive and utopian—the image of a future that condemns the present and encapsulates the idea of a redemptive fate.

David Horowitz

History is like a constantly changing tree.

so even an assassin can make the flowers grow. -variations on the death of Trotsky

First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"? And second, how could I successfully scale adoption of an Agile approach across an enterprise and overcome the inevitable resistance to change?

Asking people to change behavior is difficult!

Kanban is not a software development lifecycle methodology or an approach to project management. It requires that some process is already in place so that Kanban can be applied to incrementally change the underlying process.

Kanban must not be thought of as a software development lifecycle process or a project-management process. Kanban is a change-management technique that requires making alterations to an existing process: changes such as adding work-in-progress limits to it. Work

Nothing lasts forever. Not even the universe. What

the Mayflower landed not in a virgin land but a widowed land. Epidemic disease had already nearly emptied a long stretch of coastline that once thronged with people.

I'm just saying that his card-burning would have meant far more, on the day he did it, if he hadn't already incinerated his life.

To defy the God of Progress is often to marry the Goddess of Poverty.

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

Since NTs are naturally disinterested in tradition and custom, it should be no surprise that they readily abandon the customary for the workable.

Everything is a prototype," says Claudia. "So, we would do an org change and I would say to everyone, 'It's a prototype." Which means (a) I have permission to be wrong and (b) I want your feedback if it's not working.

Your life will never be the same, but happiness again is still possible. Never being happy again is a statement about the future. But no one can predict the future. All they can know for sure is that they are unhappy today. It helps to say, "I'm unhappy today," and leave it at that.

the reality is posttraumatic growth happens more than posttraumatic stress.

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