Quotes About Shift

education doesn't need to be reformed—it needs to be transformed.

We were leaving the empty shells of our childhoods behind and becoming prey.

You cannot understand a system unless you change it.

The ability to shift from reacting against the past to leaning into and presencing an emerging future is probably the single most important leadership capacity today.

The problem with our current societal eco-systems is the broken feedback loop between the parts and the whole. Theory U offers a method for relinking the parts and the whole by making it possible for the system to sense and see itself. When that happens, the collective consciousness begins to shift from ego-system awareness to eco-system awareness—from a silo view to a systems view.

Every transformation demands as its precondition "the ending of a world"-the collapse of an old philosophy of life.

widening gyre

There is nothing under the moon that is not subject to change.

when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task.

the journalist philosophy. This name is a nod to the fact that journalists, like Walter Isaacson, are trained to shift into a writing mode on a moment's notice, as is required by the deadline-driven nature of their profession.

Our work culture's shift toward the shallow (whether you think it's philosophically good or bad) is exposing a massive economic and personal opportunity for the few who recognize the potential of resisting this trend and prioritizing depth—

when you do have enough capital to successfully make a shift toward more control. It's at this point that you're most likely to encounter resistance from others in your life, as more control usually benefits only you.

The problem this research identifies with this work strategy is that when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task.

when you switch from some Task A to another Task B, your attention doesn't immediately follow—a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. This residue gets especially thick if your work on Task A was unbounded and of low intensity before you switched, but even if you finish Task A before moving on, your attention remains divided for a while.

Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.

September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.

A strange ripple...like an unexpected changing of the tide.

She knew that everything could seem perfectly normal, only to be changed for ever in a matter of seconds.

one form of life cannot simply be abandon unless it is exchanged for another

one form of life cannot simply be abandoned unless it is exchanged for another

When any problem occurs, you have two choices: you can get upset about it, or you can simply figure out what needs to be done. Getting upset has a seductive quality to it; there is rich drama to be had there. The cost is that there is no happiness to be had. Happiness opens up when you drop the drama and start looking for what needs to be done. Any relationship improves when both people shift from complaints to statements of what they want.

Isn't amazing how life is one thing and then becomes something else?

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

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.