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I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication… Not easy. There’s an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going, “Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting… Which is more important, the present or the future?”

– Jerry Seinfeld

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

– George Carlin

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

– Winston Churchill

I know that for every door that closes, another door opens. But man, those hallways can be a real challenge!

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

– Henry David Thoreau

I am convinced that if the rate of change inside an organization is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight.

How the change is implemented is almost as important as what the change is. Implementation is an ongoing process of discovery – a mixture of science and art.

– Todd D. Jick

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

– Francis Bacon

For every thousand swinging at the leaves of change, there is one hacking at the root.

Fear, ambiguity, and loss of control during change is so powerful that it immobilizes many people and prevents their movement to even highly desired new circumstances.

– Daryl Conner

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.

– William Bridges

Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.

– Albert Einstein

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

– Leo Tolstoy

Everything is only for a day … the universe loves nothing so much as to change things.

– Marcus Aurelius

Every time we’ve moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

– Thomas J. Watson

Every exit is an entrance somewhere else.

– Tom Stoppard

Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something.

Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.

– Nelson Mandela

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

– William Jennings Bryan

Culture is the “river of meaning” in which any change initiative must be able to swim. It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.

Constant change is here to stay.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.

– Henry Miller

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

– Jacob M. Braude

Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

– John F. Kennedy

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

CHANGE: The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this [gap between the two] a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Changes start occuring when budgets are cut.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

– Henry Brooks Adams

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