Quotes About Shift

The world has changed dramatically since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was first published. Life is more complex, more stressful, more demanding. We have transitioned from the Industrial

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. In

But shortly after World War I the basic view of success shifted from the Character Ethic to what we might call the Personality Ethic.

we want to make small changes, we can work on changing our behavior but if we want to make significant quantum changes, we need to work on our basic paradigms.

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. T

You can't become principle-centered without first being aware of your paradigms and understanding how to shift them and align them with principles.

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role, such as that of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, manager or leader.

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role, such as that of husband or wife, parent or grandparent, manager or leader. We could spend

The term paradigm shift was introduced by Thomas Kuhn in his highly influential landmark book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

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

Many people experience a similar fundamental shift in thinking when they face a life-threatening crisis and suddenly see their priorities in a different light, or when they suddenly step into a new role

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.

The paradigm shift experienced by the captain—and by us as we read this account—puts the situation in a totally different light. We can see a reality that is superseded by his limited perception—a reality that is as

sometimes the smallest addition makes all the difference.

Whatever you can point to – a physical thing, a person, a thought, an emotion – … [a]ll of them change. Even memory shows constant flux and change.

Mirabelle is not sparkling tonight, because she works only in gears, and tonight she is in the wrong gear. Third gear is her scholarly, perspicacious, witty self; second gear is her happy, giddy, childish self; and first gear is her complaining, helpless, unmotivated self. Tonight she is somewhere midshift, between helpless and childish.

Guns were out and butter was in, enough to grease the welfare skids and

The problem is that we are not trained to discriminate when the mind is useful and when it is not, and we have not developed the skills to shift out of a fused problem-solving mode of mind into a descriptively engaged mode of mind.

Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, nothing lasts forever.

you cannot solve tomorrow's problem if you aren't willing to abandon today's dud.

What happened in the United States is now happening on a planetary scale, too.

These experiences were profound Ã¢â'¬â€ people were radically different on the other side. Happier, more content, significantly more fulfilled.

when things change without a human agent directing the change, they are likely to change for the worse.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.