Quotes About Change

One of the keys to my career longevity has been an awareness that there are times you need to humble yourself and simply switch lanes. You need to recognize that there are distinct phases to everything and be ready to embrace the changing phases.

Don't let trends in the market affect your hustle. As the game changes, you need to move and adapt. If the market suddenly switches up on you, don't get stuck—pivot. In 1999, I got offered the chance to guest star on Law

In late 2007, I found out I was being transferred out of Donovan, to a different Level III at Ironwood.

was eligible for a Level II yard, and they had to find a suitable place for me. Corcoran was the place that God intended for me, the place where I could fully embrace and manifest the change I needed to make.

L.A., and they changed my whole outlook on doing time. There was this one guy in particular; his name was Rafik. He'd known me since I was in high school. He'd been a hustler, a player, a stone-cold street dude just like me. But in prison he became a Muslim. I always saw him walking around with college books. I couldn't believe

how much he'd changed—his whole demeanor and mentality, outwardly and inwardly. He was clean-cut. Wearing glasses. Carrying himself with dignity, like a real man should.

bring in certificates of fully completed classes. I wanted to show the board that I was applying myself to change. I wanted them to see that I had the training and desire to work an honest job out in the world.

May 1992, I made that bad decision to involve a group of people who wanted to use guns, because that was their method of robbery." I told the commissioners, "That was the manner of person I was back then. Today, twenty-one years later, that's not the same person you see sitting before you.

They called us back into the room and told us their decision. They believed that I had changed and my record indicated I'd been a model inmate. They felt I was no longer a safety risk to society

The purpose of management, leadership, parenting, or governing - any form of organizational leadership - is to solve today's problems and get ready to deal with tomorrow's problems. And that means managing change.

The purpose of the Adizes Method is to achieve the process of management described in this book. People participate on subjects which either affect them or to which they have something to contribute. Via synerteams and the POCs, they can change whatever can and needs to be changed. And the structured, disciplined decision-making process of the Adizes Method enables people to feel responsible for the decisions that are made cooperatively.

An organization managed by a Bureaucrat may achieve its goals in spite of its manager because people learn to bypass him. However, the harder the Arsonist tries to manage, the further behind his organization gets. While the Arsonist is busy making everyone else busy, the organization is going nowhere. The Arsonist changes direction too often, and his subordinates do not actually cooperate. The Arsonist fails because an organization cannot constantly change direction.

The higher the rate of change, the more inter and intra-dis( I) ntegration, and that is expressed in lack of inter and intra-love. Lack of inter-love. What is that? Aggression, hostility toward others.

Chaos is another name for opportunity

The ceaseless interplay of heaven and earth gives form to all things. The sexual union of male and female gives life to all things. This interaction of yin and yang is called the Way [Tao], and the resulting creative process is called change.

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.