Quotes About Change

Marx and Engels accepted the fact that the remaking of the world will have to be a cruel and ruthless task and that it will involve the destruction of all who stand in the way.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job.

There are two problems: i. Problems of today; ii. Problems of tomorrow, for the company that hopes to stay in business

The purchasing department must change its focus from lowest initial cost of material purchased to lowest total cost.

A supervisor comes in and is gone in five weeks. Another one comes in. He likewise knows nothing about this job and has no intention to learn much about it, as he too will move on any day.

At the successive sessions, people may tear up what they did in the previous session and make a fresh start with clearer ideas. This is a sign of advancement.

On idea of merit rating) Everyone propels himself forward or tries to, for his own good, on his own life preserver. The organization is the loser. Merit rating rewards people that do well in the system. It does not reward attempts to improve the system. Don't rock the boat.

Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining atNew styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

To us he is no more a personNow but a whole climate of opinion.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

Slowly we are learning, We at least know this much, That we have to unlearn Much that we were taught, And are growing chary Of emphatic dogmas; Love like Matter is much Odder than we thought.

Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last, Nurses to their graves are gone, But the prams go rolling on.

Time breaks the threaded dances And the diver's brilliant bow. (As I Walked Out One Evening)

Men have always danced bhangra, and women the female Punjabi equivalent, gidda, but not in the same place. Now, at sophisticated wedding receptions, there may be mixed discos with elderly bemused relatives watching and thinking how things have changed since their young days. Not, of course for the better!

Every year without knowing it I have passed the day.

Horror lets us know that how we expected the world to act has been indefinitely cancelled.

The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.