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Change Quotes
"It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially."
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"You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something."
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"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn."
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"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."
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"You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change."
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"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward."
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"The great growling engine of change - technology."
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"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."
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"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
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"Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change."
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"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."
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"Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing."
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."
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"The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?"
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"One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change."
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"But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies."
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"There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'"
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"I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't."
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"What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."
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"The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day."
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"I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change."
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"The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990."
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"Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress."
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"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."
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"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."
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