Slow To Change Quotes

#1. Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Gene Robinson

#2. Seabeck is slow to change.

Ashley Wagner

#3. Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Branch Rickey

#4. A lot of players are slow to change, you're playing good,( you think) why do I want to mess with that ? It takes a lot of testing, a lot of practice and observation of the ball, especially under competitive circumstances, to realize this is a better product and I need to start using it.

David Duval

#5. I am a man who am slow to change; and, if you take away from me the faith that I have been taught, it would be long ere I could learn one to set in its place. It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. To change history is very slow. The first two times I came to the States - black people didn't have the right to vote.

Agnes Varda

#7. I would say that I had to change about eating out. I used to love eating out all the time. Eating out isn't always good. I ate a lot of fast food. So I had to slow that down and that's helped me a lot.

Jadeveon Clowney

#8. To change any behavior we have to slow down and act intentionally rather than from habit and impulse.

Henna Inam

#9. On Earth, we have a continuous influx of young people who are willing to change because they haven't had time to grow hard set in their ways. I suppose there's some optimum. A life long enough for real accomplishment and short enough to make way for youth at a rate that's not too slow.

Isaac Asimov

#10. The key to successfully making any change is a slow, careful, and methodical approach. The

Justine Gantt

#11. Protect Our Winters is this foundation I started in 2007, and it focuses on slowing down climate change by bringing the winter sports community together and having a strong voice to make change and slow down climate change.

Jeremy Jones

#12. Take it slow, little by little. Remember, every small step you take now is adding to bigger change later. Change builds exponentially, with increasing momentum, multiplying on itself.

Susan Rose Blauner

#13. Change is not a one-time explosion of opportunity. It is a slow burning fire that needs to be tended constantly.

Jason Harvey

#14. Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.

Ford Frick

#15. It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

Eric Burdon

#16. 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

#17. Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.

Wesley K. Wark

#18. When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

Al Gore

#19. I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

Gregory Maguire

#20. I'm very slow, and I do everything myself. I remember I spent three days to change the size of something I had sketched because I felt it was too small.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

#21. A friend confided to me recently that she wasn't sure if it was the 'change,' plain old PMS, or just a slow shift toward embracing her inner witch that is causing her to become progressively more irritated by everything her husband does.

Celia Rivenbark

#22. Writing a very personal journey, but that doesn't mean it has to be a slow one. Sometimes, all it takes is a new way of looking at the problem to change everything.

Rachel Aaron

#23. Most REAL change is slow. Happiness and joy are the purpose of life. If we know that the future will be very dark or painful, then we lose our determination to live. Therefore, life is something based on hope.

Dalai Lama

#24. I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Al Gore

#25. 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

#26. I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

Lewis Black

#27. The Senate is extremely slow: They have enormous difficulty passing the bills that even get through the House. That's the reality that I've recognized in my two years: that it takes time to change the world.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#28. You think I'm deranged! How refreshing. Everyone here takes me so seriously, it's a wonderful change to be thought mentally deficient.

Katie MacAlister

#29. If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character ... Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. I guess walking slow getting married is because it gives you time to maybe change your mind.

Virginia Cary Hudson

#31. The programmer's primary weapon in the never-ending battle against slow system is to change the intramodular structure. Our first response should be to reorganize the modules' data structures.

Fred Brooks

#32. The moment you move faster than the slow pace of life is the moment you invite disruption and chaos to enter into your thinking. Instead, change your response to life. Don't move fast because the world around you is fast. Slow down and see life for what it truly is - special in every moment.

Neal Samudre

#33. I saw his eyes widen and his mouth fall open and his expression change from stoic to stunned.

Quinn Sullivan had lost his composure.

He looked completely astonished and it took my entire slow march down the aisle for him to recover

Penny Reid

#34. Sometimes our stop-doing list needs to be bigger than our to-do list.

Patti Digh

#35. I am broadly concerned about the slow death of free speech, but particularly in universities and also with regards to the climate change debate.

Judith Curry

#36. Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Chris Cleave

#37. Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantanaiy are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect.

William Manchester

#38. 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

#39. The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

John P. Kotter

#40. What I love about my daughter is that she is going to definitely allow me and force me to change my life and slow down and make it more about the real things in the world.

Rufus Wainwright

#41. How do we slow down what matters the most and speed up what benefits change and progress? We don't want to impede progress, but we are seeking reconnection to ourselves, to each other, and with the world.

John Maeda

#42. Think about the change that occurred in the 1500m at Christchurch. The 1500m was usually a slow race and then a sprint [at the finish]. But in 1974 I changed that from the beginning to the end. And not many people have thought about that.

Filbert Bayi

#43. Change is like the skin peeling off of a snake. It is slow. It is sticky. And sometimes you have to rub against a hard place to pull yourself through it. But in the end, you realize that it was worth it all to get the the new place and new person you have become.

Stella Payton

#44. We are witnessing a very slow and painful cultural shift. Some male gamers with a deep sense of entitlement are terrified of change. They believe games should continue to cater exclusively to young heterosexual men with ever more extreme virtual power fantasies.

Anita Sarkeesian