Quotes on Change

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To have impact, there must be a collision.

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People are the gatekeepers of change. It is people who have the visions and power, not the structures or geographic locations. The reason most visions fail is that the focus is on the program, agenda, or technology - rather than the people. God trusts His visions to people.

Carl Townsendtest

It's tough to get dinosaurs to dance.

Kriegel & Brandttest

It would be difficult to overstate the magnitude of change that will take place in the lives of all of us, in human history, as a result of the information revolution that has so unobtrusively taken place in our day. Information, its communication and use, is the web of society; the basis for all human understanding, organization, and effort.

John Dieboldtest

One might consider our institutionsﾅare the "chromosomes" of our society, and they preserve in them the successful "gene' mutations of previous social, cultural, and technical inventions. To protect themselves against further change, institutions harden their resistance by formalizing rituals, customs, and "traditions". In a rapidly changing technology, the social organism thus preserved becomes unable to cope with its new environment and either must give way to the innovators, or fail to survive.

Don Fabuntest

The lily is doubling in size every day. In thirty days it will cover the entire pond, killing all creatures living in it. The farmer does not want that to happen; but being busy with other chores, he decides to postpone cutting back the plant until it covers half the pond. The question is: On what day will the lily cover half the pond? The answer is: on the twenty-ninth day - leaving the farmer just one day to save his pond.

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We are engaged, if the transformal thinker is correct, in a process which has no parallel in human history - an attempt to change the whole of a culture into quite a different model through a conscious process.

Robert Theobaldtest

It is easier for people to understand and work within traditional realities than to perceive new ones.

Robert Theobaldtest

To the blind, all things are sudden.

Old Proverbtest

Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

Howard Aikentest

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take a lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.

Nicolo Machiavellitest

God give us grace to accept with serinity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things that can be changed, and wisdom to distinguish one from the other.

Reinhold Niebuhrtest

It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but those most adaptive to change.

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Whenever there is change or conflict, you can be sure God will use it to bring people to him. People are most receptive to God when they are under tension or in transition.

Rick Warrentest

They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warholtest

In his later years Pablo Picasso was not allowed to roam an art gallery unattended, for he had previously been discovered in the act of trying to improve on one of his old masterpieces

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A rhino can run thirty miles an hour. A rhino, however, can only see thirty feet ahead. What's at thirty-one feet, however, doesn't make any difference.

Erwin McManustest

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking only to learn that it is God shaking them.

Charles Westtest

I used to say, 'I sure hope things will change.' Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.

Jim Rohntest