Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Peter Drucker

Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

Peter Drucker

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

Peter Drucker

Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work - on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself - it must be organized for constant change.

Peter Drucker

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Peter Drucker

But innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of man's role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. And this means that innovation, rather than being an assertion of human power, is an acceptance of human responsibility.

Peter Drucker

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Peter Drucker

One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it.

Peter Drucker

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.

Martin Scorsese

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

Mariano Rajoy

Talking and pledging is very easy but governing is slightly more difficult, the policy reforms that we've implemented have worked, and backtracking would be a blunder. When I see that, with the help of Podemos, the Socialists wants to change everything we've done, I just think it's bad for Spain.

Marie Antoinette

it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

Nikita Khrushchev

I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nolan Ryan

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Nora Ephron

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Nikos Kazantzakis

As you walk, you cut open and create that riverbed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

Nikola Tesla

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Niels Bohr

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

Myrtle Reed

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Mort Sahl

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

John Wooden

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

John Wooden

If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.

John Ruskin

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

John Ruskin

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Marianne Williamson

Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.

Mason Cooley

Politicians love change, but of details only.

Michael Connelly

I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.

Michael Jackson

I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change

No final decisions have been reached. Everything is fluid. I could give you a time frame now and it could change this afternoon.