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“What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride, nothing is secure, nothing keeps.” Euripides, Hecuba
“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.“ Nancy Astor
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” Georg C Lichtenberg
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” Alfred North Whitehead
“I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need. ” Barack Obama, Twitter postings, March 2010
“Change always comes bearing gifts.” Price Pritchett
“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” Victor Frankl
“When you’re through changing, you’re through.” Bruce Barton
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change” Charles Darwin
“The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” Albert Einstein
“People have two fears about the future. First, that things will never return to normal. Second, that they already have.” Anonymous
“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.” Christina Baldwin
“All things must change to something new, something strange.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
“For things to change, first I must change.” Anonymous
“I’m not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” Woody Allen.
Organisations do not change until the beliefs and behaviours of people within them change”. Jeanie Daniel Duck.
“Great leaders don’t create great followers, they create more great leaders”. Anonymous.
“We live in a moment in history when change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” R.D.Laing.
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. Andre Gide, French novelist
“Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat”. Caroline Schroeder
“Change is exciting when done by us, but can be threatening when done to us.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Change starts with an ending and ends with a beginning”. William Bridges