Change Resistance Quotes

#1. As long as people tend to define themselves at least partially in terms of the work they do, any change to that work, its procedures and modes, is likely to have self-definitional importance to them. This can lead to surprising amounts of change resistance.

Tom DeMarco

#2. The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower the one who is watching and whose growth is not yet completed, whose path is not at all clear, whose direction is still very much up in the proverbial air.

Tim Wise

#3. Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

Ali Vincent

#4. I want to change the belief of millions of people who think there is nothing they can do to stop taking medications and reverse an existing case of Type 2 Diabetes.

John M. Poothullil

#5. Most change initiatives either fail or fall far short of original (perhaps unrealistic) expectations. More often than not, resistance is cultural in nature, the result of what James O'Toole so aptly characterizes as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

John Daly

#6. The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

Susan Sontag

#7. Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

Chris Paine

#8. I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Dennis Quaid

#9. When you become a transformer, you become faced with the challenge of skepticism

Sunday Adelaja

#10. This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

#11. It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.

Rose Wilder Lane

#12. There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

Abdallah II Of Jordan

#13. Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

Frank Herbert

#14. Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.

Atul Gawande

#15. Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.

Gina Greenlee

#16. People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.

Paul Gibbons

#17. I have struggled for decades now with the fear of and resistance to change - mostly in the realms of technology, transportation, and the ways people choose to communicate. If I had a theme song, it would be that lovely song 'I'm Old-Fashioned,' as sung by Ella Fitzgerald.

Julia Glass

#18. Resistance is the first step to change.

Louise Hay

#19. If we can't love our one and only home, what can we love? If we're unwilling to defend what we love, then what are we?

Michael Carter

#20. Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

Gary Rohrmayer

#21. Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.

Paul Gibbons

#22. Resistance to change in the mental health system comes disguised as protection of civil liberties and freedom of speech. As a result, many parents, families, and caregivers are at a loss and feel defeated by the majority of Americans who strive to maintain the current rules of society.

Tamara Hill

#23. True resistance begins with people confronting pain ... and wanting to do something to change it.

Bell Hooks

#24. To experience what isn't, love what is.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#25. The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.

Paul Gibbons

#26. Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.

E. M. Forster

#27. Our best hope will never lie in individual survivalism. Nor does it lie in small groups doing their best to prepare for the worst. Our best and only hope is a resistance movement that is willing to face the scale of the horrors, gather our forces, and fight like hell for all we hold dear.

Lierre Keith

#28. Transformation is the result of big shifts in perceptions and responses. The process can be uncomfortable, since the mind is reluctant to notice itself, to take responsibility for its stories, and to change. When the mind is in acute resistance, the emotional body pays a price.

Miguel Ruiz

#29. People tend to resist a change into something new and different.
But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.

Toba Beta

#30. Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Marc Bekoff

#31. Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

Guy Finley

#32. Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Yehuda Berg

#33. While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.

Ani DiFranco

#34. Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.

Steven Pressfield

#35. The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God's mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.

Craig Ferguson

#36. Light and flow is what shifts the world's vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

Alaric Hutchinson

#37. There is a terrible conservatism, like a cancer, right in the heartlands of music-making, a tremendous resistance to change, an absolute horror of the idea that more people might connect with music. That infuriates me more than I can say.

Charles Hazlewood

#38. Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.

Robert Conklin

#39. Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

Agnes Repplier

#40. Resistance changes itself.

Toba Beta

#41. The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Gloria Steinem

#42. Resist any form of oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.

Demi Lovato

#44. People don't change. The world carries on spinning inexorably around but people don't spin with it. They dig their heels into the shifting sand and cling on for dear life.

Tamar Cohen

#45. When you don't want to be where you are, you create suffering for yourself. Change happens through acceptance, kindness and relaxation
not resistance, not warfare, not fights.

Geneen Roth

#46. Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Bryant McGill

#47. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.

Chip Heath

#48. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.

Hal Elrod

#49. When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.

Stanley Hauerwas

#50. If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

Kathryn Bigelow

#51. Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Stephen King

#52. The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

Evo Morales

#53. We must continue to pursue peace through diplomacy, but we must also not shrink from our responsibility through the option of strength. We must take advantage of internal resistance and change from within Iran to avert this path of mutual destruction.

Michael McCaul

#54. Innovation often originates outside existing organizations, in part because successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.

Guy Kawasaki

#55. Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.

Debasish Mridha

#56. There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#57. When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

Bonnie Bassler

#58. Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#59. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Criss Jami

#60. When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens.

Gina Greenlee

#61. Conservative resistance to change, that's all,

Harper Lee

#62. It's a French technique. Soups get screened, and sauces. Forced through a tamis or a chinois. Everything that comes out is smooth and all the rough parts get left behind, thrown away. I don't want to be screened.

Jael McHenry

#63. Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They're the ones you need to be listening to.

A.J. Sheppard

#64. The fundamental driving force for me is to create a change in the world we live in ... It is about exploitation, plundering and degradation. I have a small possibility to participate in the resistance. Most of the things that I do are part of a resistance, a form of solidarity work.

Henning Mankell

#65. They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped.

Kenneth Blackwell

#66. Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

Benjamin Disraeli

#67. The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Peter F. Hamilton

#68. Another basic feature of a Gestalt model of intervention is the special definition of resistance and the way of dealing with it. The Gestalt-oriented consultant assumes as a working hypothesis that there is a great deal of ambivalence regarding change in any system.

Edwin C. Nevis

#69. The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]

Karl Marx

#70. People don't resist change. They resist being changed.

Peter M. Senge

#71. rather than selling people on some change, you were better off identifying the reasons for their resistance, and addressing those. Imagine

Michael Lewis

#72. Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures after they have been transmitted. It's a futile pursuit.

Rhonda Byrne

#73. What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.

Sharon Weil

#74. No ordinary effort stops the wheel.
In sleep it spins without resistance.
Passively, falling deeper, lacking the will to activate any change.

Stephen Demone

#75. The resistance, though it comes in many forms, begins with the mistaken belief that I am somehow separate from change, and that I can control it, rather than to align myself with change as it makes itself apparent, and ride it.

Sharon Weil

#76. First, how could I protect my team from the incessant demands of the business and achieve what the Agile community now refers to as a "sustainable pace"? And second, how could I successfully scale adoption of an Agile approach across an enterprise and overcome the inevitable resistance to change?

David J. Anderson

#77. Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward.

His Holiness Divas

#78. Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.

Craig Ferguson

#79. Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

A.C. Crispin

#80. This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?

Lierre Keith

#81. Resistance to change is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.

Sukant Ratnakar

#82. The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

Gabriel Byrne

#83. Volume is often heavy when things are about to change, signaling a breakout of support or resistance, and a possible change in trend.

Billy Williams

#84. Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

Tim Ferriss

#85. One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

John P. Kotter

#86. Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

Anthony Crosland

#87. Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing the future: what will happen if change does not happen?

David W. Earle

#88. It's not easy to change things. Things fight back.

Marty Rubin

#89. The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

Tom Peters