The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Chemistry is the study of matter, but I prefer to see it as the study of change.
Every innovation has to go through three stages. First people laugh at it. Then they fight it. Then they accept it.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.
The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
I am not the man I once was. I do not want to go back in time, to be the second son, the second man.
An organization's capabilities become its disabilities when disruption is afoot.
Preserve the core and stimulate progress.
Life is growth. You grow or you die.
A strategic inflection point is a time in the life of a business when its fundamentals are about to change.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.
Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
Look at the world around you. It may seem like an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push — in just the right place — it can be tipped.
What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
Big changes can start with very small steps.
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
If you do not change, you can become extinct.
The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.
Technology accelerates transformation, but technology alone never causes transformation.
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us.
True behavior change is identity change.
The successive transition from one paradigm to another via revolution is the usual developmental pattern of mature science.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.
