Quotes About Change

We got there in stages because, while you can force anything down the throat of an organization, if people don't buy into the logic, the change won't stick.

When I arrived at IBM, new mainframes were announced every four to five years. Today they are launched, on average, every eighteen months (with excellent quality, I might add). I can understand the joke that was going around IBM in the early 1990s: "Products aren't launched at IBM. They escape.

I tell you I cannot bear it! I shall do something desperate if this life is not changed soon. It gets worse and worse, and I often feel as if I'd gladly sell my soul to Satan for a year of freedom.

Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Over time I actually changed the way I saw myself, which meant I showed up in the world differently,

O remember In your narrowing dark hours That more things move Than blood in the heart.

Every day you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.

Maria Elena, the nanny Noelle known since birth, had headed off to a new job in Calgary.

A house you can rebuild; a bridge you can restring; a washed-out road you can fill in. But there is nothing you can do about a tree but mourn.

Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.

The Water gets hot very gradually, and as far as the frog is concerned, there is no one point where it gets dramatically different or bad enough to jump out.

I wasn't vulnerable to you, to what I did with you, because I had fallen out of love with Guy. I was weary, and if I fell out of love with anything it was with that competence of mine. I fell out of love with myself.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

We started dying before the snow, and like the snow, we continued to fall.

LIFE IS A GREAT MYSTERY. IS EVERYBODY A DIFFERENT PERSON WHEN THEY ARE WITH SOMEBODY ELSE?

illness is an invitation to change your relationship with yourself for the better.

There is a natural rhythm and flow of life . Things come and things go. I believe that when something goes, it is to make place for something new.

He has done with roofs and men,Open, Time, and let him pass.

Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.

The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!

Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.