Quotes About The Necessity Of Change

#1. Then at once "human nature" is again invoked to prove the necessity of change, for "human nature" has been thwarted or insulted by the dominant system. "Man" can no longer be defined as what suits the dominant system, when the dominant system apparently does not suit men. I

Paul Goodman

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

John P. Kotter

#3. Even the upper end of the river believes in the ocean.

William Stafford

#4. Her stillness defeated his storm.

Chris Gardner

#5. Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

Darell Hammond

#6. Necessity is the author of change.

Tim Hansel

#7. The Creator of all men and all things has provided the challenge of change, the necessity for acceptance, and variations of all patterns. We live by change, by struggle and the unexpected; for only in change, struggle, and the unexpected can we achieve growth.

Faith Baldwin

#8. As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?

Klaus Schwab

#9. There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation.

Lawrence Weiner

#10. Double-check your voice mail message. Listen to your on-hold words and music. Write welcoming scripts for your telephone team. Pay attention to the music in your office and lobby areas. Make sure what your customers hear sounds good.

Ron Kaufman

#11. There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Wendell Berry

#12. People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.

Jean Monnet

#13. Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling thier missions.

Charles Garfield

#14. The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.

David Belle

#15. There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Daniel Kahneman

#16. Intelligence could not thrive where there was no change and no necessity for change.

Felix J. Palma

#17. People only accept change in necessity and see necessity only in crisis.

Jean Monnet

#18. The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Wendell Berry

#19. Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#20. In the blink of an eye, the fairytales told to children were as real as death and taxes. Vampires, shifters, trolls, demons and creatures of myth, were as real as the air we breathe.

L.A. Kennedy

#21. Tea with milk and sugar is so ordinary. We want to see a change, feel the necessity to bring colours other than the ordinary, in our lives. We feel liberated, enriched, superior. But we lose a part of nature, the ordinary beautiful essential nature in doing so.

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#22. That people don't speak in theories, that the theories they employ change, flexibly, and of necessity, from moment to moment in conversation, that the notion of limiting conversation to a rigid rule of theoretical constancy is an absurd denial of what conversation is.

Adam Gopnik

#23. We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

Jo Walton

#24. Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.

Susan B. Anthony

#25. We change when circumstances necessitate it; we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#26. You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire ... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy.
Michelangelo on the dead.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#27. Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

Mason Cooley

#28. Rest and a complete change," said George. "The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium.

Jerome K. Jerome

#29. One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining the object of your desire you are still not satisfied. The true antidote of greed is contentment.

Dalai Lama

#30. Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#31. As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us.

Francesco Guicciardini

#32. Britain is a European power. We cannot change our geography. Our involvement in the politics of European cooperation is one of necessity. Our wealth and our security depend upon it.

Charles Kennedy

#33. The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson