Change Process Quotes

If we are not happy with where our past decisions have led us, then the place to start is with our current thinking process.

You can't be who you are going to be and who you used to be at the same time.

Reform is a process, and not an event.

Growth is a painful process.

Change is incremental and real change, enduring change, occurs one step at a time.

Compared to this [the transition] the election was easy.

You can't find that moment when you became somebody else, because everything is in flux. So as it were, the torturous period where you are changing, you are transforming - I think that can be very hard on somebody's system. You don't necessarily realize that is what's happening.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

'Frasier' works because we stay focused on the idea that - how he continues to grow. It is not that you are really - the mission is not to try to keep him fresh; the idea is if you naturally put a character in a situation that demands growth of him, then he will remain fresh.

Realize that change - whilst we want it to happen fast - is usually the result of a great deal of work, and often comes as a result of a series of compromises (so long as we do not compromise our values).

Too often we forget that social and political movements don't happen overnight. They don't bring change immediately - you have to build a critical mass of understanding of the issues.

Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.

One of the problems of organizing in the North, in the rich countries, is that people tend to think - even the activists - that instant gratification is required. You constantly hear: 'Look I went to a demonstration, and we didn't stop the war so what's the use of doing it again?'

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.

For me, change doesn't happen on a linear basis; it zig-zags back and forth.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy lid of inertia and pseudo-events, slowly and inconspicuously undercutting it. It may be a long process, but one day it must happen: the lid will no longer hold and will start to crack. This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and uniquesomething truly historical, in the sense that history again demands to be heard.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Demographic transformations are dramas in slow motion.

You can't change the fruit without changing the root.