LOOPED: WORDS WORTH REPEATING
Things Change
It’s a fact. People resist change. Most companies resist change. Companies are willing to expend enormous efforts to maintain the status quo. Why? Primarily because people run the place and people work there.
For most of us, it is not until the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of change that change even becomes a consideration.
Some companies are better at responding to a crisis than they are at seeking out opportunity and change. Where does your company invest its capital and people? What circumstances bring out the best in your company? Is it "change avoidance" or "change seeking".
Here are a few of our favorite’ Change’ and Opportunity Quotes
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it is from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to change one's position, and be bruised in a new place." - Washington Irving
Fred Harteis Favorite:
"Things do not change; we change." – Henry David Thoreau
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery." - Harold Wilson
Billy Florence Favorite
"You can never change your life until you change something you do daily" – John Maxwell
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation." – Robert F. Kennedy
Orrin Woodward Favorite
"We fear not this world of change." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jody Victor Favorite
"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference." - Michael Dell
"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: It would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg." - C.S. Lewis
"The pessimist sees difficulty in ever opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill
