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Change

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Best Quotes about Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn