Top 48 Quotes About How Quickly Things Change
#1. Things might look bad now,but in matters of the heart you'd be surprised how quickly things change.
David Baldacci
#2. Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.
Andy Andrews
#3. As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
Aberjhani
#4. We react very quickly in the market. We can make quick changes.
John Ilhan
#5. No matter what business you are in, there is change, and it's happening pretty quickly.
Jim Pattison
#6. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.
Al Siebert
#7. Innovation is key. Only those who have the agility to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive.
Robert Kiyosaki
#8. Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
Jimmy Carter
#9. When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#10. Why it is that life can change so quickly?"
"How it's possible for a heart to stop beating so suddenly, instantly breaking all the hearts that were ever connected to it? But the truth is there is no sense in what happened to Jarrod. None that I can see. I wish I had a better answer, but I don't.
Samantha Young
#11. Leonardo Dicaprio didn't change his name, Emilio Estevez didn't change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday.
James Roday
#12. It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
Chuck Klosterman
#13. Code without tests is bad code. It doesn't matter how well written it is; it doesn't matter how pretty or object-oriented or well-encapsulated it is. With tests, we can change the behavior of our code quickly and verifiably. Without them, we really don't know if our code is getting better or worse.
Michael C. Feathers
#14. Five is for five heartbeats, the length of time it takes to breathe in or out. For that is how quickly a life may change, for better or for ill. The time it takes to make up, or change, your mind.
Cameron Dokey
#15. I'm very hopeful that we'll see some change in our food system. I don't know how far we'll go, or how quickly we'll get there, but there is no question that a significant percentage of the American public is dissatisfied with the food system.
Michael Pollan
#16. Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.
Anthony Liccione
#17. How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.
Nancy E. Turner
#18. Funny how things can stay the same forever and then change so quickly.
Lauren Oliver
#19. It's amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.
Bryan Davis
#20. It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
E. Nesbit
#21. Remember how quickly our field [computer science] changes. That's why you want to focus on learning things that don't change: how to work well with other people, how to carefully assess a client's real - as opposed to perceived - needs, and things like that.
Randy Pausch
#22. You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.
Larry Ellison
#23. After dinner, out of nowhere, it started to rain. It caught me off guard, and seeing the world that had only been sunny and warm transformed by a sudden thunderstorm was jarring, a reminder of just how quickly things could change.
Morgan Matson
#24. The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.
Ike Skelton
#25. Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.
Gautama Buddha
#26. People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's
Donna Leon
#27. There really was nothing firm, nothing certain. Even here, even at this place where he thought he'd found something permanent - everything could change in a day. Everything could be lost so quickly.
S.J. Kincaid
#28. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.
Enid Blyton
#29. Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.
Elliott Abrams
#30. The world is changing quickly and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind.
Najib Razak
#31. Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
Malcolm X
#32. Some change imperceptibly, little by little, others quickly and once and for all, but everyone changes, and for that reason it is in vain to ask whose fate is the best. My
Leena Krohn
#33. I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
R.A. Salvatore
#34. For me, the most fun is change or growth. There are definitely elements of both that I like. Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.
Tony Hsieh
#35. How quickly the world changes, yet we are so busy trying to live that we don't notice it. And yet, it does not change quickly enough.
Lynn Cullen
#36. In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
Zygmunt Bauman
#37. It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.
Jim Pattison
#38. There are days when I rather detest living in the year 1867. Everything moves so quickly. Change is happening at such a pace. I preferred the way of life thirty years ago when I was a boy.
John Boyne
#39. A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#40. If we are lucky enough to have good leaders at the top, change will happen quickly. Unfortunately,
Chetan Bhagat
#41. Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.
Tony Hsieh
#42. Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could stand it psychologically.
Jonathan Franzen
#43. Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer
#44. Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.
Julianne Moore
#45. If ... if certain things should come to pass, I will send word to each of you. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones.
George R R Martin
#46. Things can change quickly in the game of thrones. Words are wind, and the wind is always blowing at the Wall.
George R R Martin
#47. His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.
Susan Sontag
#48. Christian adults need to think about talking to our own children as a form of cross-cultural missions. Cultural change happens so quickly that teens are exposed to ideas and worldviews very different from those of previous generations.
Nancy Pearcey