Quotes About Difficulty Of Change

#1. Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

Nelson Mandela

#2. We cried openly over the ones we lost. We wept secretly for our smartphones, our cars, our microwave ovens, and the Internet.

Rick Yancey

#3. The greater the difficulty of the change, the greater the need for enchantment. Factors that cause friction include expense, risk, and "politics." If a change is a big deal, then it's a big deal to make it happen.

Guy Kawasaki

#4. Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

Stella Payton

#5. Difficulties allow us to change for the better.

Thomas S. Monson

#6. People are very varied: some change their feelings easily, others with difficulty.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

Anthony Bourdain

#8. If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy.

Ray Long

#9. The price of change is measured by our will and courage, our persistence, in the face of difficulty.

Peter Block

#10. If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.

Kathleen Norris

#11. I write books and either people read them or they don't read them. The rise of Facebook or e-books doesn't change the difficulty level of writing sentences and thinking up new ideas.

Colson Whitehead

#12. I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the best talent and technology we have to solve the problem.

Federico Pena

#13. Perhaps the difficulty in measuring Change Management is that the very thing we are measuring is changing.

Pearl Zhu

#14. Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

Mark Epstein

#15. Even the most difficult things lead us where we need to go. It just isn't always where we thought we were headed.

Nancy Ann Healy

#16. Changing a Habit is Never Difficult.
Difficult is to Address Your Unwillingness to do it

Vineet Raj Kapoor

#17. Avoid a problem if you can. It's too late when you try to solve it

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#18. I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.

Helen Fielding

#19. This whole idea of visibility by the public creates a pretty powerful lever. In the new transparency era, you are able to make change you would otherwise have difficulty making. It's no longer possible for somebody just to bury the problem. It's the reason why things like WikiLeaks are important.

Tim O'Reilly

#20. One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else.

Benjamin Franklin

#21. There was also no character arc. Change only comes when we face the difficulty of reality head-on. Fantasy changes nothing, which is why, once we're done fantasizing, it feels like a bankrupt story.

Donald Miller

#22. Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it's own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Niels Bohr

#23. The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#24. I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Jerry Saltz

#25. Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.

Kevin Brockmeier

#26. I had a recent delivery of new fashion plates from Paris, and you hardly glanced at the hairstyles. My husband tells me you are still having difficulty controlling the change. And your cravat has been tied very simply of late, even for evening events.

Gail Carriger

#27. I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

Chris Lilley

#28. Dr. Patel nodded. "You are a very smart man, John. I am curious to know why you never went to college?" John shrugged. "I thought I would. But I fell in love and got married." He started to say more, but his throat caught. Swallowing hard, he continued with difficulty. "Plans change.

Forrest Carr

#29. Because of our selfishness and inclination toward personal comfort and convenience, we'd rather not have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We have difficulty reconciling the goodness of God with the mystery of his ways.

Chris Hodges

#30. Life doesn't get good until you learn to be grateful.

Gregor Collins

#31. People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

Margery Allingham

#32. Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

Aubrey De Grey

#33. I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#34. Bad ideas are sometimes necessary." It sounds so much like an excuse, it's such an addict thing to say, that it makes my skin crawl.

Tess Sharpe

#35. Satan seemed to wink at her. She supposed he would know her soul. She couldn't remember selling it, least she wasn't rich, but perhaps it wasn't worth much.

Ursley Kempe

#36. The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

Ramakrishna