Quotes About Change

Ethics really isn't about agreeing to a set of principles. It's about changing the way you act.

The slogan goes, "Move fast and break things." But what if society is broken?

With automation at this level, the new "ops guy" won't care if he's responsible for a dozen systems or 10,000. And the modern BOFH is, more often than not, an old-school sysadmin who has chosen not to adapt.

But maybe you could get better at missing things—and people—with enough practice.

it. The floor squeaked as he opened the door. I almost didn't recognize him. He looked ten years older than he had this morning. His posture was slumped, and his face was all pale and doughy. His eyes were red-rimmed. "Detectives." His voice was soft as he stood aside for me and Ryan to come in.

There is no trick of a magician or spell of a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism or bribery or torture or coercion that can compare in power with the force for change unleashed in the human breast through the touch of love.

I love that we're living the kind of life where things are wearing down around us

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

'The 17 Day Diet' keeps your body and metabolism guessing. I call this 'body confusion.'

The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routines.

You can create any change you want with your mouth.

Invest the time to connect deeply with yourself and find out what you really want. The answer to the question "What do I really want?" may change at different times in your life, but the key is to answer it as fully and as authentically as you can for this moment, right now. No one else can define what your life's desires are, so you must be willing to question yourself rigorously and deeply.

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.

It is generally not possible simply to maintain a level of process performance. A process will tend to erode no matter what, even if a standard is defined, explained to everyone, and posted. […] Any organized process naturally tends to decline to a chaotic state if we leave it alone. […] A process is either slipping back or being improved.«

los demás directivos y jefes hacia la pauta de comportamiento deseada. Los altos directivos no pueden delegar el tipo de cambio cultural del que estamos hablando.

Ponga siempre el tiempo de cambio o transición en la parte superior de la barra apilada. Figura A2.13. Análisis de capacidad.

It is sad, in a way, that the exploding auto is going the way of the old red streetcar, the horse-drawn milk wagon, the ice truck and other traditional and practical forms of transportation. A shotgun blast from a clump of bushes is nice in its own way, but for drama there is nothing like instant depreciation of a car with a gangster at the wheel.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.