Quotes About Shift

People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.

Even a language won't stand still.

the path of change is unpredictable.

Life could change with every breath.

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mutatis mutandis

Segretamente o no, è necessario divenire tutt'altro oppure cessare di essere.

We used to be the fucker," one of Anaconda's lawyers lamented. "Now we're the fuckee.

Pupkin shifted his opinions like the glass in a kaleidoscope.

Once we can see the major shifts from liking to disliking, from opened to close, we will be able to acknowledge them before they gain momentum.

We can only achieve quantum improvements in our lives as we quit hacking at the leaves of attitude and behavior and get to work on the root, the paradigms from which our attitudes and behaviors flow.

But you can't change the fruit without changing the root.

Suddenly I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently.

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.

It becomes obvious that if we want to make relatively minor changes in our lives, we can perhaps appropriately focus on our attitudes and behaviors. But if we want to make significant, quantum change, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

Second, I would suggest that you shift your paradigm of your own involvement in this material from the role of learner to that of teacher. Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

For some reason, our methods weren't working. . .so we had to change our methods.

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of and developing your own proactive nature. You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles. You can't become principle-centered without a vision of and a focus on the unique contribution that is yours to make.

For Ptolemy, the great Egyptian astronomer, the earth was the center of the universe. But Copernicus created a paradigm shift, and a great deal of resistance and persecution as well, by placing the sun at the center.

Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. The power of a paradigm shift is the essential power of quantum change, whether that shift is an instantaneous or a slow and deliberate process.

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Perhaps the most important insight to be gained from the perception demonstration is in the area of paradigm shifting, what we might call the "Aha!" experience when someone finally "sees" the composite picture in another way. The more bound a person is by the initial perception, the more powerful the "Aha!" experience is. It's as though a light were suddenly turned on inside.

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face

It was not until we changed those basic paradigms, until we saw things differently, that we were able to create quantum change in ourselves and in the situation.