Quotes About Shift

This Mouse must give up one of his Mouse ways of seeing things in order that he may grow.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

I was put in this world to change it.

An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation

Her new mantra was a piece of wisdom given to her by a friend of my sister who specialized in palliative care: "Make Plans and Cancel Them.

A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.

Such conflicts are reminders of the Fourth Law of Organizational Development: whenever there is a painful, troubled time in the organization, a developmental transition is probably going on.

the outlook, attitudes, values, self-images, and ways of thinking that were functional in the past have to "die" before people can be ready for life in the present.

One of the biggest problems that endings cause in an organization is confusion. Things change, and obviously the organization won't do some of the things it used to do.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

In fact, many endings represent the only way to protect the continuity of something bigger.

Yesterday's ending launched today's success, and today will have to end if tomorrow's changes are to take place.

Author says change emphasizes what is happening TO us while transition emphasizes opportunity for growth within.

How did things get to be this way?

Alice for short. A diochronism. (Title of novel)

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

We cannot read the same works forever. Our honey-moon, even though we wed the Muse, must come to an end; and it is followed by indifference, if not by disgust.

I know, and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backward.

Schumacher posited that people must make a serious shift in what they consider to be wealth and progress: "Ever-bigger machines, entailing ever-bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever-greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom.

Laidlaw had seen that quality of arbitrarily shifting perspective before, always in people whose environment was putting them under pressure. It was as if they had been overtaken by the hardness of their experience and mugged by it, so that they lived the rest of their lives concussed.