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Change Management Quotations- 2

• It is happily and kindly provided that in every life there are certain pauses, and interruptions which force consideration upon the careless, and seriousness upon the light; points of time where one course of action ends and another begins. --Samuel Johnson
• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. --W. Edwards Denning
• I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change. --Jim Rohn
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. --Aldous Huxley
• Live out of your imagination, not your history. --Stephen Covey
• Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. --Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Men do change. --John Steinbeck
• None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives. --Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living
• Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. --Chet Atkins
• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security found. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Part of betting on yourself is decreasing your association with losers and increasing your association with winners. --Dr. Robert Anthony
• People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. --Barbara Sher - "I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was"
• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. --Goldsmith
• People wish to be settled; but it is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self image. --Denis E. Waitley
• Resistance is thought transformed into feeling... change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no resistance. --Bob Conklin
• Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands. --Clint Eastwood
• Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it the next wish is to change again. --Samuel Johnson
• The Checklist of Change 1. Take your time. 2. Arrange temporary structures. 3. Don't act for the sake of action. 4. Recognize why you are uncomfortable. 5. Take care of yourself in little ways. 6. Explore the other side of change. 7. Get someone to talk to. 8. Find out what is waiting in the wings of your life. 9. Use this transition as the impetus to a new kind of learning. 10.Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape. --William Bridges - "Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes: Strategies for coping with the difficult, painful, and confusing times in your life."
• The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. --James Russell Lowell
• The only people who don't change their minds are incompetent or dead. --Everett Dirksen
• There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them. --Phyliss Bottome
• There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come. --Everett Dirksen
• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. --Nelson Mandela
• The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way. --Anthony Robbins
• They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. --Andy Warhol
• This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances. --Ronnie Milsap
• This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything. --Scott Reed
• Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, usually do. --An Ad for Apple Computers
• Today, more than ever, the successful manager must be a change seeker - always having a constructive discontent with existing practices. An organization without change seekers will become rigid and atrophied. --Lou Boland, Boland Services (circa 1965)
• To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. --Helen Keller
• We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. --Mark Twain, Mark Twain at Your Fingertips
• When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile. --Garth Brooks
• Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
• You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life -- no one can take that away. --Clark Moustakas
• You change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind. --Zig Ziglar
• You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years. --Jim Rohn
• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. You don't have charge of the constellations, but you do have charge of whether you read, develop new skills, and take new classes. --Jim Rohn
• You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry. --Loretta Lynn
• You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to. --Robert H. Schuller

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