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Agility is fundamental to leading a team through times of change.

Sandra E. Peterson

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Benjamin Disraeli

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

Change before you have to.

Jack Welch

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Adlai Stevenson I

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow.

Scott Cook

You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.

Zig Ziglar

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.

Nolan Ryan

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Nathaniel Branden

To survive and even thrive in a changing world, nature offers another great lesson: the survivors are those who at the least adapt to change, or even better learn to benefit from change and grow intellectually and personally. That means careful listening and constant learning.

Frances Arnold

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

A. C. Benson

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Alan Cohen

Success is no longer about changing strategies more often, but having the agility to execute multiple strategies concurrently. And success requires CEOs to develop the right leadership capabilities, workforce skills, and corporate cultures to support digital transformation.

Pierre Nanterme

The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.

Marianne Williamson

In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.

Jacque Fresco

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

Robert Greene

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.

Kevin Kelly

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Jack Welch

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Joyce Meyer

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Edwin Louis Cole

As the world we live in is so unpredictable, the ability to learn and to adapt to change is imperative, alongside creativity, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Alain Dehaze

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Stephen Covey

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

Nia Peeples

Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.

Warren Bennis

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Edward de Bono

Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.

Mike Hawkins

Our only security is our ability to change.

John Lilly

An open-minded person running a business might catch a problem faster than a closed-minded person. And when they identify a problem, they can fix it much faster.

Adeo Ressi

Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.

Phil Crosby

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Stephen Covey

I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'

Zig Ziglar

Trying to change before you're ready isn't likely to be productive. For example, most New Year's resolutions don't last because people spring into action without being prepared for the work it's going to take. Forcing change based on a date on the calendar, rather than a true readiness to transform, can be a setup for failure.

Amy Morin

Don't fear change - embrace it.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Walter Gilbert

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Marsha Sinetar

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Denis Diderot

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

Social change comes through people.

Paul Watson

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

Isaac Asimov

Change begets change as much as repetition reinforces repetition.

Bill Drayton

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Wendy Carlos

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Denis Waitley

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

This knowledge that you might have to really reorganize and redefine yourself and build new skills is really important.

Carol S. Dweck

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Fernando Torres

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

Chanda Kochhar

Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

John C. Maxwell

Openness explains the ability to innovate and come up with big ideas because you're open to them, and fluid intelligence explains the ability to go and execute.

Adeo Ressi

Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they'd originally anticipated.

Amy Morin

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Michael Porter

To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher.

Marilyn Ferguson

I am forever learning and changing.

W. Edwards Deming

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Bruce Barton

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Stephen Hawking

If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.

Maggie Rogers

Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.

Gordon W. Allport

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.

Gary Hamel

Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility.

Anthony Carmona

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Jack Welch

Change brings opportunity.

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