Quotes About Transition

Even under the best circumstances, some knowledge is inevitably lost with each handoff. With

Tuckman phases of teams, going through form, storm, norm, and perform. She's ready to start norming and performing!

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Retirement: That's when you return from work one day and say, "Hi, Honey, I'm home — forever."

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

When you retire, you switch bosses — from the one who hired you to the one who married you.

You're not going to do this forever. There's a finite amount of time you're going to be doing this. Do this really, really well. And if you do this really, really well, everybody will see that, and they'll move you onto the next thing. And you do that well, and then you'll move.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.

He already had one foot in the winter of heaven. He was going to be whisked up.

We've been three people and an octopus all of my life, and now the octopus is gone.

Change is hard. It's hard for you, it's hard for me, it's murder on your sister." His voice breaks.

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

I was sitting with Sophie Koh, who is awesome and has been my one and only best friend since my original best friend, Meredith Timms, turned into a total Fembot and I had to take a vacation from not only being her best friend, but from even being her friend at all. Which is very sad and tragic, but is a whole other story.

Technologies from a prior era, once the focal point of innovation, now become the scaffolding upon which next-generation innovation will build.

The winning strategy does not just change as we move from stage to stage, it actually reverses the prior strategy.

the real news is the deep and dividing chasm that separates the early adopters from the early majority. This is by far the most formidable and unforgiving transition in the Technology Adoption Life Cycle, and it is all the more dangerous because it typically goes unrecognized.

In December 1941, when Australians began to sense that they were plunged into a new environment, the spectacles they had carried out from Britain were obsolete. They needed spectacles that would correct short-sightedness. They had to see the environment they were in as clearly as the environment they had left across the world.

Wars end when nations agree that war is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute; wars begin when nations agree that peaceful diplomacy is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute. Agreement is the essence of the transition from peace to war and from war to peace, for those are merely alternating phases of a relationship between nations.

Yet in our asshen olde is fyr yreke.

Oon ere it herde, at tothir out it wente.

Nothing that is will always be.- Open Mic Singer

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.