Quotes About Change

Steven Toulmin's very insightful analysis and critique of Kuhn is found in his outstanding analysis of conceptual change Human Understanding: The Collective Use and Evaluation of Human Concepts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972

of Kuhn's and other theories of scientific change, see H. E. LeGrand, Drifting Continents and Shifting Theories (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)

It's worth noting that the assumption that something can't happen has the potential to make it happen, since people who believe it can't happen will engage in risky behaviour, and thus alter the environment.

If John somehow turns into a different man and we do not witness that transformation, the editor considering your novel will somehow turn into an editor considering a different novel.

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.

Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry" Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned to pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn't tell. And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

I didn't know you could break your finger just hanging up clothes. God Almighty, you situate your hand wrong between a blouse and a clothespin and everything suddenly changes. What a stupid life this is." "Did

Jung: we only discover what supports us when everything else we thought supported us doesn't support us anymore.

Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.

When you're in a hole, quit digging!

Her tecrübe sizi bir sonrakine haz?rlar. Bir sonrakinin ne olaca??n? hiç bilemezsiniz.

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or independent or Libertarian, it doesn't matter," I said. "I think we all have a sense that there's something not quite right [in the country], that we're drifting toward mediocrity.

They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.

Big opportunities lie in the creation of something new. But that innovation has to be relevant and inspiring, or it will burst into color and fade away as quickly as fireworks.

Nothing can stay the same forever, in business or in life, and counting on the status quo can only lead to grief.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope," Kennedy famously said in a speech delivered in South Africa in 1966 to condemn apartheid as well as the discrimination in his own country. "Crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

The faults of history cannot be undone, but if we confront them we can begin to learn, change the present, and create a better future. Discussion is a good place to start, but talking can never be enough.

Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.

If you're really honest with yourself, as I have tried to be with myself, along the way in building the company, there has been something we have lost. And it's no one's fault and there's no punishment or blame. Weare what we are—but the question is, What are we going to do about it and how are we going to fix it?

I had written hundreds of memos during my 26 years at the company, and all had shared a common thread. They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.

Speaking out is a necessary beginning, but not the same as real change.