Making Changes Quotes - Page 8

• The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information, is decentralizing authority and power at a breakneck pace. Those who understand this can break away. Those who attempt to hold back may well be trampled.

  James M Strock

  Break, Authority, Transparency

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Death, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Artist

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Life, Risk, Chance

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• Things don't have to change the world to be important.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

  Rick Santorum

  Law, Trying, President

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• As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Directors, Happenings, Ifs

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  Ice T

  Mean, Trying, Redemption

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• Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

  Vicki Myron

  Zero, Pain, Moving

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

  Pat Garrett

  Balance, Needs, Done

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

  Caprice Crane

  Taken, People, Way

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• This is the ultimate bad-boy date, isn't it? Breaking into a different country." "Hey, it makes a change from hot-wiring cars together." "Been there, done that....Alex seriously, are you sure no one's going to shoot us?

  L.A. Weatherly

  Country, Boys, Car

  L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.38, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Best Job, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Positive, Happiness

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.

  Charles E. Rice

  Leadership, Responsibility, Adventure

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• I never drop a player I only make changes.

  Bill Shankly

  Sports, Player, Coaching

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