If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

1.    A bad strategy well executed will win every time. And a good strategy poorly executed, will fail every time. ~Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems

2.    A good question is never answered.  It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.  ~John Ciardi

3.    A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.  ~Confucius, Analects

4.    A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ~unknown

5.    After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully.  After five years, look at it with suspicion.  And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.  ~Alfred Edward Perlman, New York Times, 3 July 1958

6.    All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.  ~Ellen Glasgow

7.    All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.  ~Anatole France

8.    All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

9.    Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. ~unknown

10.  An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. ~unknown

11.  Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.  ~Bertold Brecht

12.  Change is an environment you create to sustain life — not something you avoid or struggle your way through. ~Margaret Wheatley

13.  Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.  ~Robert C. Gallagher

14.  Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. ~Richard Hooker (1554-1600) English theologian

15.  Change is not the same as war, but it can feel like it. ~unknown

16.  Change the environment; do not try to change man. ~Buckminster Fuller

17.  Confusion is a word we have created for an order which is not yet understood. ~Henry Miller

18.  Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.  ~Pauline R. Kezer

19.  Dynamic Stability (interspersing major change initiatives among carefully paced periods of smaller, organic change) is immensely more difficult than ramming big, hairy, audacious changes through an organization, in much the same way that it is more difficult to end a war with negotiation than with an atomic bomb. But dynamic stability has the great advantage of leaving survivors. It allows change without fatal pain. ~Eric Abrahamson

20.  Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.  ~Paul Valery

21.  Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something. ~unknown

22.  Every exit is an entry to somewhere else. ~unknown

23.  Every one thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Tolstoy

24.  Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.  ~Arthur Schopenhauer

25.  Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.  ~John Kenneth Galbraith

26.  For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. ~Joyce Cary, British novelist

27.  Future shock ...the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. ~Alvin Toffler, Future Shock

28.  God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me.  ~Author Unknown

29.  Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art of ending. ~unknown

30.  Growth is the only evidence of life.  ~John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua, 1864

31.  He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.  ~Francis Bacon, "On Innovation," Essays, 1597

32.  He who rejects change is the architect of decay.  The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.  ~Harold Wilson

33.  How did I get here? Somebody pushed me. Somebody must have set me off in this direction . . . for I would not have picked this way for the world. ~unknown

34.  Humans so crave control that they will choose dysfunction over ambiguity. ~unknown

35.  I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm afraid of the old ones. ~John Cage

36.  I put a dollar in one of those change machines.  Nothing changed.  ~George Carlin

37.  If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.  ~Unknown

38.  If you don’t create change, change will create you. ~Unknown

39.  If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  ~Mary Engelbreit

40.  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.  ~Woodrow Wilson

41.  If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.  ~Kurt Lewin

42.  If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained.  Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.  ~Saint Augustine

43.  If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change.  If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.  ~John A. Simone, Sr.

44.  In the absence of information from the organization, people will connect the dots in the most pathological way possible. In the absence of communication from leaders, people will seek information from others sources, whether those sources know what they’re talking about or not. The leaders’ silence doesn’t stop the conversation; it just means they’re not participating in it. ~Jeanie Daniel Duck

45.  It is extremely important that you show some insensitivity to your past in order to show the proper respect for the future. ~Roberto Goizueta, former chairman and CEO, Coca-Cola

46.  It is not necessary to change.  Survival is not mandatory.  ~W. Edwards Deming

47.  It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.  ~Unknown

48.  It's not that people resist change; they resist being changed. ~unknown

49.  It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

50.  Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.  ~Irene Peter

51.  Learn to love change. Feel comfortable with your own creative intuition. Make compassion, care, harmony and trust the foundation stones of business. Fall in love with new ideas. ~Anita Roddick

52.  Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. ~Karen Kaiser Clark

53.  Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.  ~Laurens van der Post

54.  Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ~unknown

55.  Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;

56.  Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.  ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

57.  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead

58.  No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.  ~Michel Montaigne

59.  Nought may endure but Mutability. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"

60.  Nowadays change is around every corner; in my day it was only around the expected ones.  ~V.L. Allineare

61.  Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!  ~Andre Gide

62.  One definition of insanity is to do the same thing, day-after-day, expecting different results. ~Mark Silber, Ph.D.

63.  Only the provisional endures. ~unknown

64.  Our only security is our ability to change.  ~John Lilly

65.  People don't change.  Only their costumes do.  ~Gene Moore

66.  pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps. ~Euripides, Hecuba

67.  Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing economy. ~Unknown

68.  Stubborness does have its helpful features.  You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.  ~Glen Beaman

69.  Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of the mercury in the barometer, indicates nothing but the changeableness of the weather.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

70.  The ability and willingness of individual employees to change is the key factor limiting an organization’s ability to reinvent itself. Forceful leadership can accomplish only so much. The shift from machine-age bureaucracy to flexible, self-managing teams requires that lots of ordinary people be psychologically prepared to push the transformation themselves. ~unknown

71.  The art of life is constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~Kakuzo Okakura

72.  The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ~unknown

73.  The best way to change someone else is to change yourself. ~unknown

74.  The birds are molting.  If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.  ~James Allen

75.  The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.  ~William H. Seward

76.  The difference between the future and the past is what you are doing now. ~Adlai Stevenson

77.  The future is arriving much more quickly than it did. ~unknown

78.  The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.  ~Henry Miller

79.  The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.  ~William Blake

80.  The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.  ~Ellen Glasgow

81.  The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.  The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.  ~George Bernard Shaw

82.  The paradox of change is that it’s ridiculously easy to initiate, but very difficult to guide so that it accomplishes what you had in mind in the first place! ~unknown

83.  The philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point, however, is to change it. ~Karl Marx 

84.  The talk you hear...about adapting to change is not only stupid, it's...dangerous. The only way you can manage change is to create it. By the time you catch up to change, the competition is ahead of you. ~Peter Drucker

85.  The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.  ~Jawaharlal Nehru

86.  There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse!  As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.  ~Washington Irving

87.  There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight.  ~Ezra Pound

88.  There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to institute a new order of things. ~Machiavelli

89.  They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.  ~Confucius

90.  They stumble that run fast ~William Shakespeare

91.  Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.  ~Francis Bacon

92.  Things do not change; we change.  ~Henry David Thoreau

93.  Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.  ~Joan Wallach Scott

94.  Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.  ~Faith Baldwin

95.  Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.  ~Marcel Proust

96.  To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ~unknown

97.  Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be. ~Goethe

98.  We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.  ~Harrison Ford

99.  We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~C. G. Jung

100.        We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.  ~Lynn Hall

101.        We encourage others to change only if we honour who they are now. We ourselves engage in change only as we discover that we might be more of who we are by becoming something different. ~Margaret Wheatley

102.        We have seen life’s motions of emergence, but called them “change.” We in the West have tried to understand the world in terms of static things, machine-like structures that move on command. In this world of things, change is not motion, but a description of a new state. Rather than understanding change as continuous, creative energy, it becomes nothing but a redesign. ~Margaret Wheatley

103.        We have to understand that we live in a world of emergence. Organization wants to happen. Human organizations emerge from processes that can be comprehended but never controlled. ~Margaret Wheatley

104.        We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ~Gandhi

105.        We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.  ~John Steinbeck, America and Americans

106.        We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die. ~W.H. Auden

107.        We're the ones we've been waiting for. ~Hopi elders

108.        What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,

109.        What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? ~Dr. Robert Schuller

110.        What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

111.        When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve: My dear, we live in an age of transition. ~W. R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul's, London

112.        When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.  ~Victor Frankl

113.        When you are through changing, you are through.  ~Bruce Barton

114.        When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.  ~Stanislaw Lec

115.        Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure.  But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it.  Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.  ~Shunryu Suzuki

116.        You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation:  If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.  ~Author Unknown

117.        You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you Long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the hour of new clarity. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

118.        You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ~Buckminster Fuller