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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.

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.

Whatever you resist, persists.

What I can’t understand is why people are so afraid of new ideas. I’m afraid of old ones.

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.

We must either find a way or make one.

We make ourselves up as we go.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To change a situation, we first have to change ourselves. To change ourselves effectively, we have to first change our perceptions.

To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations.

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.

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