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  • In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
    -Eric Hoffer
  • When it comes to change, there are three seasons of timing: People change when they hurt enough that they have to, when they learn enough that they want to, and when they receive enough that they are able to.
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    John Maxwell in Leadership Wired, June 2003
  • The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. -Bill Clinton
  • Everyone thinks of changing humanity and no one ever thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy
  • If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.  -Mary Engelbreit
  • Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. 
    -Robert C. Gallagher
  • There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -Nelson Mandela
  • The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.  -William Blake
  • Nothing endurees but change. -Heraclitus
  • Growth is the only evidence of life. -John Henry Newman
  • If you want to make enemies, try to change something. 
    -Woodrow Wilson
  • If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are.  For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained.  Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.  -Saint Augustine
  • Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.  -Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon
  • The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me.  The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them. 
    -George Bernard Shaw
  • Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.  -Francis Bacon
  • We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.  -John Steinbeck (from America and Americans)
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