Change & Transformation: Embrace Change Quotes

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"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones"

John Cage, Composer

John Cage

"Do what you haven't done is the key, I think"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'"

Richard Rogers, Architect

Richard Rogers

"The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades"

John P. Kotter, Educator

"Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing"

Giuseppe Mazzini, Activist

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent"

Nolan Ryan, Athlete

"If we are to better the future, we must disturb the present"

Catherine Booth, Activist

"A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

Marcus Aurelius

"The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

Dan Quayle

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken"

Frank Herbert, Writer

Frank Herbert

"It takes guts to get out of the ruts"

Robert H. Schuller, Clergyman

Robert H. Schuller

"Change before you have to"

Jack Welch, Businessman

Jack Welch

"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces"

Henry J. Kaiser, Businessman

Henry J. Kaiser

"Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms"

Branch Rickey, Athlete

Branch Rickey

"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe"

George Sand, Novelist

George Sand

"It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

Dennis Weaver

"True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed"

Tom Robbins, Author

Tom Robbins

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

Harold Wilson

"When you're through changing, you're through"

Bruce Barton, Author

Bruce Barton

"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!"

David Lee Roth, Musician

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

Marsha Sinetar, Author

Marsha Sinetar

"If you never change your mind, why have one?"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new"

Brian Tracy, Author

Brian Tracy

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable"

William Pollard, Clergyman

"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth"

Tom Barrett, Politician

"Back then, we could drive a mile from home and there was nothing. Now it's grown in every direction and is populated and modernized. I guess I have mixed feelings about it, but I'm not someone that thinks everything should stop growing"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost"

Sophie Swetchine, Author

"You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition"

James Agee, Novelist

"And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself"

Lynn Redgrave, Actress

"We cannot fight new wars with old weapons"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"If you want to experiment, do something temporary"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"Where there is age, there is evolution, where there is life, there is growth"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

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