Quotes About Change

I can say pretty assuredly that most churches don't set out to control or hurt people. And most don't. But it does happen. Over time, churches can change and begin to place a higher value on their systems and programs than on the people they are called to serve.

His father was numbed with astonishment. "Mighty little do I know about God," he finally replied. "[But] what I do know about God changes my life.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

It's no longer the big fish eating the small fish—it's the fast fish eating the slow fish.

Happiness doesn't change you. Pain does.

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work.

Have you transformed the way you innovate?" was Benioff's big line at the 2012 Dreamforce show. Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.

We can't just fix the workplace. We need to fix capitalism itself—and not just by making a few small tweaks at the edges. The whole system needs a major, fundamental reboot.

She left for the doctor's one morning thinking she had a stomach bug and returned a cancer patient.

We're no longer intimidated by math, because we're slowly redefining what math is.

Playing it safe is like body surfing in two feet of water. You may not drown, but you're also not in deep enough to catch any but the most meager of waves. The most dangerous strategy is to play it safe. In its place, Break-It Thinkers take risks and break rules and challenge convention, making change an ally." —Robert Kriegel 2

Next time you meet someone, try asking, "How are you making the world a better place?" rather than the normal, "What do you do?

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

I am as yet a storm of zero force. Almost a breath.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.