Quotes About Effective Change

#1. Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and approaches less effective. Change is inevitable. To remain rigid when the whole world is changing and advancing is to invite misfortune. The AA program in particular is challenged with an opportunity of unprecedented magnitude.

Chris Prentiss

#2. We cannot hope to bring about effective change unless we are willing to BE changed.

Richard J. Mouw

#3. If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#4. The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

Gerry Spence

#5. With the right Mindset ... effective thinking is automatic.

Tony Dovale

#6. The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.

Douglas B. Reeves

#7. The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an aggressive change in policy that makes people wake up, say 'this is a new day' and change their expectations.

Christina Romer

#8. If there is a single factor that makes spiritual direction effective as a change agency for the soul, it is this: spiritual direction holds our shame at bay long enough for us to see ourselves as God sees us in Christ.

Gary W. Moon

#9. Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

Stone Gossard

#10. Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

#11. An effective follow-up system is the key to an effective coaching process, which will lead to significant behavioral changes. True success is in the follow-up.

Farshad Asl

#12. Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Shusaku Endo

#13. Free yourself from fruitlessly worrying about things you can't control and put your energy towards the things you can. Seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.

Steve Maraboli

#14. We know that giving someone ideas as to what
they 'should' do and how they should 'change' to be
more effective, often has the opposite effect

Richard Boyatzis

#15. Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

Todd Park

#16. We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.

Ruth Harrison

#17. The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!

Wesley K. Wark

#18. Problem 3: What innovative change could be made to an alarm clock to make it more effective? Proposed solution: If you hit snooze, your coworkers are notified via e-mail that you overslept.

Anonymous

#19. Working with the media remains an effective and essential way to raise issues, educate the public, and prod policy-makers and corporate leaders to change for the better.

Chuck Schumer

#20. I think in any situation, so much of effective leadership is when it comes from your own personality. And I feel very fortunate to be comfortable in the Colts locker room, where people can be who they are, and they don't have to change it when they show up to work that day.

Andrew Luck

#21. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.

Kimberly Giles

#22. An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

Rajendra K. Pachauri

#23. It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#24. When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

Ronda Rousey

#25. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.

John P. Kotter

#26. Advocacy is better served when fellow activists are able to respond in ways that do not build walls or burn bridges. Change takes time and tends to come hard to human beings. Those who understand this human tendency are more effective activists.

Lisa Kemmerer

#27. Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Samuel Wilson

#28. We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

#29. Human beings are often at their best when responding to immediate crises - car accidents, house fires, hurricanes. We are less effective in the face of enormous but slow-moving crises such as the loss of biodiversity or climate change ...

David Suzuki

#30. Bureaucracies inside Washington resistant to change and policymakers fearful of creating controversy have hampered an effective response to the emerging political and military challenges posed by China. The

Robert Haddick

#31. Civilization without regeneration, without a supernatural change of the heart, will never bring in a millennium, an effective and glorious rule of Jesus Christ.

Louis Berkhof

#32. Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.

Simon Mainwaring

#33. Want an effective way of creating positive change in your life? Stop talking about what you hate, and start talking about what you love. Stop accounting for what lack, and start counting all the reasons you have to be grateful.

Karlyle Tomms

#34. If you are selective about the things you choose to read, look at or listen to, then you are taking effective action against negative thinking. It's just like with a computer; if you change the input, you will change the output.

Zig Ziglar

#35. I believe that reappropriation can be a powerful tool for creating social change. Sometimes, things like irony, satire, or humor are more effective in getting at difficult truths or concepts like white privilege, orientalism, and the exoticization of culture.

Simon S. Tam

#36. Change your focus. Refocus on the desired results Once you acknowledge how easy it is to attract factors in your life that you do not want and accept how effective and simple the law is, you can start using it to your advantage.

Malti Bhojwani

#37. Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation.

Tibor Kalman

#38. The most effective way to manage change is to create it.

Peter Drucker

#39. I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

Frank Luntz

#40. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.

Jennifer Echols

#41. If you want to make change, 'Show me how' can be a stronger, more effective approach than 'Just say no.' That's what I think.

Carl Safina

#42. You must embrace the Word of God as the most effective instrument for change.

T. B. Joshua

#43. Garrison had spent decades defending the agitation of public opinion both as a necessary, permanent feature of democracy and as an effective way to change politics in a democracy from the outside.

W. Caleb McDaniel

#44. You can't make a difference unless you are different.

Chris Hodges

#45. If you are to become an effective gift giver, you may have to change your attitude about money.

Gary Chapman

#46. In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.

Sharon Weil

#47. Corporations took our innate impulse toward dissent and our desire for meaningful change, and transmuted them into effective sales tools for their products.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#48. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.

Paul Bloom

#49. It is common sense that when women are able to plan their pregnancies, populations grow more slowly and as a result so do greenhouse gas emissions. Providing access to contraception and preventative health should be one of the many effective strategies used to fight climate change.

Kavita Ramdas

#50. Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

Mark Hyman

#51. The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

Pearl Zhu

#52. The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

Richard Pascale

#53. Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

Gary Zukav

#54. Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Rachel Carson

#55. Pain prompts us to change behavior that is destructive to ourselves or to others. Pain can be a highly effective instructor.

Tony Dungy

#56. Government systems suffer from two weaknesses. They are complex. And they are slow. We need to change this. Our systems need to be made sharp, effective, fast and flexible. This requires simplification of processes and having trust in citizens. This needs a Policy Driven State.

Narendra Modi

#57. Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.

Thomas Kuhn

#58. In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.

Abhijit Naskar

#59. I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before.

Daniel Willey

#60. We consider it vital that the community of nations be drawn together in an orderly, disciplined, rational way to review the history of our global environment, to assess the potential for future climate change, and to develop effective programs.

George H. W. Bush

#61. All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective way is to get your brain to associate massive pain to the old belief.

Tony Robbins

#62. If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.

Melinda Gates

#63. Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Wendy Kopp

#64. Change has to come from within us for it to be effective.

Pravin Agarwal

#65. Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.

John P. Kotter

#66. I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.

Alix Smith