Quotes About Change

For about the first two billion years of Earth's history, its atmosphere contained only minute traces of oxygen, even though it had long been a home to life. For

Companies rebrand so often because people who work in branding know, deep down, that they don't have real jobs and the constant emphasis on logos and color schemes creates a frenzy of activity that distracts them from the creeping existential dread that haunts their every waking moment.

Before women gained the right to vote in America, many "had never before considered their degraded status as anything but natural," historian Jean Baker observes. As the suffrage movement gained momentum, "a growing number of women were beginning to see that custom, religious precept, and law were in fact man-made and therefore reversible.

When ideas survive it's not because they're true - it's because they are interesting. What makes an idea interesting is that it changes our weakly heald opinions.

When ideas survive it's not because they're true - it's because they are interesting. What makes an idea interesting is that it changes our weakly held opinions.

Uncertainty primes us to ask questions and absorb new ideas.

When people are resistant to change, it helps to reinforce what will stay the same

A hallmark of wisdom is knowing when it's time to abandon some of your most treasured tools, and some of the most cherished parts of your identity.

To become an original, we have to be willing to take some risks. When we go against the grain to upend time-honored traditions, we can never be certain that we will succeed. As journalist Robert Quillen wrote, "Progress always involves risk. You can't steal second and keep one foot on first base.

Even if your organization doesn't currently embrace critical upward feedback, holding an open season on leaders might be an effective way to begin changing the culture.

That's the nature of Power today: Change, or be changed. Learn to Thrive in a networked world, or fall.

You don't magically become a new person as soon as you slip a ring on your finger.

The ideal is that your faith not be rigid and unpliable, but instead that it is capable of being stretched and remolded over time, and that your theological and spiritual life grows deeper and more mature with the passing years.

grace has the power to change our lives.

Grace has power. When you give kindness, compassion, goodness, and love to someone who does not deserve it, that graceful act has the power to change hearts, heal broken

relationships, and reconcile people and even nations. Grace changes the one who receives it, and it also changes the one who gives it.

It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are doing, or how it is distorting your life.

I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course.

the simplest way to block out the strangeness of time passing before your eyes is to fix it in place, to edit it down to monuments or potted plants.

His family seemed, more than anything, incurious about one another. As if they'd known one another well in the past bu had moved on now and resented, without saying as much, the need to keep up.

I guess the lesson is, wherever you go, life follows you there, hunts you down, and abducts you (just kidding).

I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

Confidence. That's the word that came to mind, one that I would never before have used to describe any part of my life.

Those who are conquered," wrote the philosopher Ibn Khaldun in the fourteenth century, "always want to imitate the conqueror in his main characteristics—in his clothing, his crafts, and in all his distinctive traits and customs.