Change Quotes - Page 29

We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship and community can exist. Let us design this world together.

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place, I told him, like you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you'll never be this way ever again.

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.

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.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Change is the healthiest way to survive.

Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.

People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.

In the end, the question is not, how do we use nature to serve our interests? It's how can we use humans to serve nature's interest?'

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.