Quotes About Rapid Change

#1. How silly then to imagine that the human mind, which is formed of the same elements as divine beings, objects to movement and change of abode, while the divine nature finds delight and even self-preservation in continual and very rapid change.

Seneca.

#2. The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot.

Arne Glimcher

#3. Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change.

Mohnish Pabrai

#4. It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals.

Alvin Toffler

#5. We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

Nathan M. Pusey

#6. Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit.

Austin Ligon

#7. Every day on a rapid change. If you find the exact point, you will survive or you will suffer

Thoughts

#8. In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

Brian Tracy

#9. In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.

Marcia Conner

#10. In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Brian Tracy

#11. We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

Tim Brown

#12. Suddenly, she employed those very English weapons: devious good manners and a rapid change of subject.

Patricia Duncker

#13. It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

Eric Hoffer

#14. It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

Sheila Ballantyne

#15. Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

Ron Suskind

#16. There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Peter Drucker

#17. The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Peter Drucker

#18. What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

Simon Travaglia

#19. Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years!

Tanya Masse

#20. In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

J. Paul Getty

#21. Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

William C. Oates

#22. Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

Thomas Friedman

#23. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

Jennifer James

#24. To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact.

David Blunkett

#25. We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#26. A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

B.F. Skinner

#27. [Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change

Jon M. Sweeney

#28. One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

Arthur Levitt

#29. Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today.

Theodore Kaczynski

#30. No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.
... it was real muggy earlier, hot enough to cook a bear. Anyway, you get used a rapid weather change.

Annie Proulx

#31. The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#32. The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

Stockwell Day

#33. College education is the great Filipino dream. But in a world of rapid technological change, getting a job or keeping it depends as much on how well one reasons as how well one uses his hands.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#34. The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?

Barack Obama

#35. We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

Charlie Munger

#36. 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

#37. The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

John Seely Brown

#38. Change forced by others is difficult to accept. And too rapid a change causes instability.

Amish Tripathi

#39. As a nation, we are on a path of rapid and deep systemic change to our health system, and it's going to unfold for some time to come. It is already transforming the fundamental nature of the U.S. medical care delivery system.

John E. McDonough

#40. Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Marsha Blackburn

#41. Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.

Stephen Jay Gould

#42. The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

Ernst Mayr

#43. If words lie face down there's a chance they might change during the night; you may suddenly come to see them with a new eye, perhaps with a rapid flash of insight. It is conceivable.

Tove Jansson

#44. Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution.
[Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

Tacitus

#45. I'm extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general.

Binyavanga Wainaina

#46. The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that you want to have the new thought about. Then say the words that you want to have your new thought about. Do this often enough and you'll train the mind to think a new way.

Neale Donald Walsch

#47. In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

Douglas Coupland

#48. No one sets out to be the bad guy, you set out to change the world and heal the wounds of society. Until the day you realize just out deep those wounds go and that the only way to save the world is to put it down like a rapid dog.

Samuel Grace

#49. Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

Larry Brilliant

#50. Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#51. In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Martha Beck

#52. Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#53. One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.

Michael Lewis

#54. Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Emily Greene Balch