Change Resistance Quotes

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept..

The fear of being different prevents most people from seeking new ways to solve their problems.

Every innovation is misguidance, even if the people see it as something good.

In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.

It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.

There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.

What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. “You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine.” Second phase: they say, "Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along.

But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

Many good people serve in Congress. They are patriotic, hard-working, and devoted to the public good as they see it, but the institutional and cultural impediments to change frustrate the intentions of these well-meaning people as rarely before.

We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things, whilst those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

The commonest error of politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

If the world ends, I'll just head on down to Kentucky because they're always 20 years behind.

Reform means difficulties. History moves often by leaps, then it moves slowly, because the resistance is organizing itself.

The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

I think that people are so insecure in their jobs, they're so uncertain that the people they work for really care about them, they're so uncertain about what their kids are looking at in the future, that people are reluctant to take any risks for change.

Competent people are the most resistant to change

Social stability is ensured, not by the cessation of the demand for change – for the needy and the restless will never cease to cry for it – but by the fact that change in its progress must at last hurt some class of men who are strong enough to arrest it.