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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be a dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying affair.
– J. Paul Getty
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
– Yogi Berra
When the sea was calm; All ships alike; Showed mastership in floating.
– William Shakespeare
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
– Rabindranath Tagore
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
– Alexander Graham Bell
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change – THEN you will change.
– Anonymous
Whatever you resist, persists.
– Anonymous
What I can’t understand is why people are so afraid of new ideas. I’m afraid of old ones.
– John Cage
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must change the way we change.
– Anonymous
We must either find a way or make one.
– Hannibal
We make ourselves up as we go.
– Kate Green
We must adjust to changing times while still holding to unchanging principles.
– Julia Coleman
We have to create a new organizational architecture flexible enough to adapt to change. We want an organization that can evolve, that can modify itself as technology, skills, competitors, and the entire business change.
– Paul Allaire
We can not direct the wind but we can adjust the sails.
– Anonymous
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
– Anonymous
We ain’t what we want to be, And we ain’t what we gonna be, But we ain’t what we wuz.
– Carolina mountain proverb
Unless you’re the lead dog, the view never changes.
– Anonymous
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
– Walter Lippmann
Unless we change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed.
– Chinese Proverb
Two Basic Rules of Life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change.
– Anonymous
To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it.
– Jr., Ken Keyes
To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.
– Anonymous
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
– Tom Peters
To change a situation, we first have to change ourselves. To change ourselves effectively, we have to first change our perceptions.
– Anonymous
To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.
– Anonymous
Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations.
– Anonymous
This, too, shall pass.
– when asked for a proverb that would fit any occasion, Wise men of the King of Siam
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
– Francis Bacon
There may be nothing sadder than people who spend their lives talking about what might have been.
– Anonymous
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