Quotes About Initiative And Change

#1. Managing change is no longer a one-time initiative, and change management turns to be a strategical ongoing capability in today's digital organizations.

Pearl Zhu

#2. We Americans write our own history. And the chapters of which we're proudest are the ones where we had the courage to change. Time and again, Americans have seen the need for change, and have taken the initiative to bring that change to life.

Al Gore

#3. With innovation and initiative we have the potential to change the world for the better.

Sameh Elsayed

#4. If you patent a discovery which is unique, say a human gene or even just one particular function of a human gene, then you are actually creating a monopoly, and that's not the purpose of the world of patents.

John Sulston

#5. Since, in the best Southern tradition, I was named Edmund Valentine White III, sometimes when people look up my books on Amazon they find 'Chocolate Drops from the South' by my grandfather.

Edmund White

#6. Change requires individuals who recognize that new things can be done and who take the initiative to get them done ... The existing bureaucracies, public and private, will not take on the job of changing what is.

Lester Thurow

#7. No one can remember more than three points.

Phil Crosby

#8. For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

Dalai Lama

#9. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

Jack Welch

#10. The Social-Democratic Federation took part in all the political and economic struggles of the English working class; it took pains to bring Socialist views home to them, not only through agitation and propaganda, but also by actions.

Karl Radek

#11. Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

Linda Ronstadt

#12. Aye, so: there is love, and there is indulgence, and they may touch sometimes but they're not the same.

Jude Morgan

#13. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

#14. You see, I have come to believe in self-help, individual initiative, the love of what you do, and the full development of all individuals. I am constantly disappointed by how little we expect of ourselves and of the world.

Hanif Kureishi

#15. There was something about her.. Even the way she didn't like me drew me in, and I couldn't help but smile.

Kiera Cass

#16. I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.

Donny Osmond

#17. I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Stephen Covey

#18. I created a tone for network television that they hadn't really been seen before. And I have to admit that was really more of an accident. I was just writing the way I write.

Marc Cherry

#19. If we seek spiritual heroism ourselves, the old ego is just back in control under a new name. There would not really be any change at all, but only disguise, just bogus self-improvement on our own terms.

Richard Rohr

#20. With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

John Burnside

#21. Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Dalai Lama

#22. Not a good man. Drinks too much in an uncreative way.

James Dickey

#23. Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.

Jesse Jackson

#24. I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.

Marian Keyes

#25. Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change.

John Izzo

#26. Life is always beautiful. To make it more beautiful is what living a life is.

Shiven

#27. Purpose is not an add-on, it's not an initiative. It is a culture change and it never finishes

Richard Branson

#28. Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.

Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek

#29. You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.

James Mattis

#30. There is no suggestion of regime change; quite the contrary, this is an initiative to help people and to help governments who are inclined toward change.

Colin Powell

#31. Real, sustainable community change requires the initiative and engagement of community members.

Helene D. Gayle

#32. This is my world. You step into my world, you will step out a loser - I guarantee it.

Frank Shamrock

#33. A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

John Dewey