Significant Change Quotes

• No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leader, Compromise, Reservoirs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The current market ecosystem is not sustainable, and significant changes are coming one way or another.

  John Ramsay

  Ecosystems, Way, Currents

  "A former SEC director joined the dark pool from 'Flash Boys' and likened the stock market to the Death Star" by Portia Crowe, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2015.

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• One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Change, Transition, Might

  "'Why Not Have Our Own World?'". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.

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• In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one.

  Andrzej Wajda

  Strong, Motivation, Focus

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• I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.

  Tracy Chapman

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "Tracy Chapman Comes Out of Her Shell / Publicity-shy singer-songwriter wants people to hear 'Telling Stories'" by Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. April 16, 2000.

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• We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Queens, Past, Years

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.

  Laurel Clark

  Heart, Body, Way

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• Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

  James Morcan

  Party, Different Faces, Leader

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• Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies were the policies that had a wide family consensus. The question I think would be if the king becomes sick, whether you have weak Saudi leadership in the Arab world and the Middle East rather than strong Saudi leadership, but I think the fundamental policies will continue, the ones we’re familiar with under King Abdullah.

  Elliott Abrams

  Strong, Kings, Thinking

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• We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.

  Jeff Olson

  Two, Typical, Needs

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• You can't change the past but you can change everything else. Take your first step toward making a significant change in your life, today.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Past, Today

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Jan 27, 2014

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• Significant changes in the growth rate of money supply, even small ones, impact the financial markets first. Then, they impact changes in the real economy, usually in six to nine months, but in a range of three to 18 months. Usually in about two years in the US, they correlate with changes in the rate of inflation or deflation."
  "The leads are long and variable, though the more inflation a society has experienced, history shows, the shorter the time lead will be between a change in money supply growth and the subsequent change in inflation.

  Milton Friedman

  Real, Years, Two

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Safety, Self Love

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• The financial services industry has seemed to treat the crisis like a little rainfall - inconvenient, but no significant changes needed. The real question moving forward is how the industry will respond to Wall Street reform and growing public anger.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Wall, Real, Moving

  "Exclusive Interview: Elizabeth Warren Says Big Banks Must Stop Blocking Reform". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Thinking, Administration, Trump

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way we relate to the earth.

  Dennis Weaver

  Business, Doe, Earth

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• War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.

  Jacque Fresco

  War, Suffering, Culture

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

  J. G. Ballard

  Retirement, Mean, Age

  "Age of unreason". Interview With Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

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• Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

  Pat Riley

  Change, Sports, Promotion

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change is about to occur. In the near future, we will simply become another object that can be monitored, tracked and controlled within a vast machine.

  John Twelve Hawks

  Animal, Eras, Tools

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• The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

  Scott Adams

  Relationship, Imagination, Mind

  Scott Adams (2004). “God's Debris: A Thought Experiment”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• One of the most dynamic and significant changes you can make in your life is to make the commitment to drop all negative references to your past, to begin living now.

  Richard Carlson

  Commitment, Past, Negative

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life”, Hyperion Books

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• As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She was buoyant by nature; she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wanted was to lie on the couch with the Times over his face, so that death, when it came, wouldn't seem a significant change.

  Louise Glück

  Mother, Lying, Father

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• The most significant change in a person's life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.

  William J. Johnston

  Change, Attitude, Moving Forward

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• There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

  Annie Lennox

  Motivation, Society, Needs

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