Quotes About Change

My approach to criticism and what I teach and preach inside Amazon -- is when you're criticized, first look in a mirror and decide, are your critics right? If they're right, change. Don't resist.

There's a tendency, I think, for executives to think that the right course of action is to stick to the knitting--stick with what you're good at. That may be a generally good rule, but the problem is the world changes out from under you if you're not constantly adding to your skill set.

Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

Strip malls are history.

Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you're on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.

To me, this book is sort of like a snakeskin. A snakeskin is something you might find on the side of the road and make something out of—a belt, say, or a hatband. The snake itself heads off doing more snake stuff—getting it on with lady snakes, eating rats, making more snakeskins, et cetera.

As the Dude says, New shit comes to light, and when it does, you'll pick it up again.

Enough of crime!" Bustling in

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

I shop at a computer store called, "Your Crap Is Already Obsolete."

Generations are fictions.

Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story. It is only the visible side of the larger problem: resegregation.

A book or a work of art--culture--cannot by itself change the world, but by asking questions that matter, it might attempt to be an act of articulation against violence, the brutal and the casual kinds. It might aspire to starting a conversation through which together we might find common meaning, and words that free.

By itself, gentrification can't explain the new geography of race that has emerged since the turn of the millennium... Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story. It is only the visible side of the larger problem: resegregation.

The horizon toward which we move always recedes before us. The revolution is never complete. What we see now as solid and eternal may be disintegrating inward from our blind spots. All that signifies progress may in time be turned against us. But redemption is out there for us if we are always in the process of finding love and grace.

We will flush greed out of our system or be flushed away by it.

Each of us was born in an era when complexity has become the hallmark of our existence.

We've arrived at the point where technology and information come hurtling towards us.

Today, merely being born guarantees that you will face a never-ending stream of complexity within your home, on the highway, at work, and everywhere in between.

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.

If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for "dangerous" climate change.