Change Quotes

One of the problems with climate change, global warming and global air pollution is that it may change the frequency and intensity of electrical storm activity. Too much lightning activity may cause excessive mating, aggression, fatigue, illness and disease to occur. Too little may turn off the animal and plant breeding cycles.

~ Steven Magee

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You’ll know that you’re getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done.

~ Max Mckeown

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

~ Steve Jobs

Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

You are perfect, right now, as you are. You are perfect, but incomplete. You are exactly who you had to be, to create the life you have right now, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with you or your life. But, if you want to be, do, or have, something different, you will need to change.

~ B. Dave Walters

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

~ D. Nicole Williams

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

~ Charlie Caruso

I personally feel that I could not go out and plant the million trees, but I could go out and tell people to tell 10 people each, ‘Okay, all of us are going to go out and plant 10 trees,’ and you, eventually, plant a million trees.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such changes might offer for economic or social innovation.

~ Peter F. Drucker

I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say thank you. I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me.

~ C. Joybell C.

For example, I can doubt that 2 + 2 = 4; however, my doubting does not change the equation. When I test out that formula and find that it is true, then that becomes my reality. How can anything become real until it is tested in the crucible of doubt?

~ David W. Earle

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

~ David Millar

When a leader is at their limit the last thing they want to hear is that they need to change even more. Maintaining good rhythms of rest, exercise and fun create more energy for a leader to be willing and open for change.

~ Gary Rohrmayer

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait.

~ Bernie Glassman

TO ALL MANKINDSpeak kind wordsto mankindand the unkindwill attack you.Speak common senseusing any of your senses,and you will be attacked bythe senseless.Speak truth,and you will be attacked bythe untruthful.Speak about absolutely nothing,and absolutely nothingwill speak back,but then nothing at allwill ever change.

~ Suzy Kassem

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

~ Mary E. Demuth

A metamorphosis had come over us. It was something internal, an electrical pulse in the brain, some slight variation in the aortic rhythm that had forever altered our states, transformed our external structures. We were not who we had been, nor yet what we would become.

~ Cliff James

Tradition was safety, change was danger.

~ Mary Doria Russell

I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on making change after change until one day I realized that EHS was no longer present.

~ Steven Magee

What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.

~ Guy Finley

A popular perception that political news is boring is no minor issue; for when news fails to harness the curiosity and attention of a mass audience through its presentational techniques, a society becomes dangerously unable to grapple with its own dilemmas and therefore to marshal the popular will to change and improve itself.

~ Alain De Botton

God is a strange and mysterious master, and I no doubt am a strange and mysterious servant, but from this day forward I am His. I am forever changed, by my own choice, and I wonder if He is too.

~ Kimberly Elkins

Like most events that change the world, it didn't seem interest to anyone except the people willing to do the work.

~ Berkun

Like most other events that change the world, it didn't seem interesting to anyone except the people willing to do the work.

~ Berkun

Never fear what people will say... Never think you can't do it because it was never done before! You can be the source of change that is suspending for quiet a long period now! You too can fly!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

~ Richard Buckminster 'Bucky' Fuller

Tradition is the prison where change is detained... To make a change, you need to agree that you are not going with the statement this is how we do it! Yes, that was how it was done, but what next? Agree to change!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference.

~ Sukant Ratnakar

I woke up in morning and saw, world has moved on

~ Sukant Ratnakar

Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other

~ Gyan Nagpal

Be the thermostat in your community, the one who makes a change. Not the thermometer who, just watches

~ Mya Waechtler

To be a librarian is not to be neutral, or passive, or waiting for a question. It is to be a radical positive change agent within your community.

~ R. David Lankes

While death is sadly inevitable, our grief will soon pass like a swallowed penny through one’s bowels.Painful change just takes time.

~ Jessica Watts

Arin, you’re not listening. You’re not thinking clearly.”“You’re right. I haven’t been thinking clearly, not for a long time. But I understand now.” Arin pushed his tiles away. His winning hand scattered out of line. “You have changed, Kestrel. I don’t know who you are anymore. And I don’t want to.

~ Marie Rutkoski

Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn't promised. It's possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to dashed hopes for too much. We manage to interpret biblical teaching to support our longing for perfection. As a result, we measure our progress by standards we will never meet until heaven.

~ Larry Crabb

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss.

~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

People don't change, they come closer and closer to who they really are.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Change is the most beneficial power available to you, simply change the things you don't like, replacing them with your true desires.

~ Steven Redhead