Rapid Transformation Quotes

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Cultural views often don't move at all for a very long time, but when they move they can move very fast.

I went from one day being toasted to being roasted.

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

The rate of change is global now. I think there's a kind of mind that is so ill at ease with that transformation that it reaches out for something permanent. And religious faith offers that, from simplicities, which you are told are eternal and unchanging, and you can hold on to those like a life raft in a metamorphosing world.

China's urbanization supported the country's impressive growth and rapid economic transformation.

Never has a revolution been so rapid. Six days have been sufficient to give the enemy possession of all the Dutch provinces.

The Russian government pushed too hard to change the system overnight.

The status quo is leaving the building, and quickly.

Some changes are so slow, you don't notice them, others are so fast, they don't notice you.

Significant and seemingly impossible social and political change happens more often than we think, and it happens more rapidly than we realize. Even the most momentous change is always possible if one finds the right way to make it happen.

The libertarian must never advocate or prefer a gradual, as opposed to an immediate and rapid, approach to his goal. For by doing so, he undercuts the overriding importance of his own goals and principles. And if he himself values his own goals so lightly, how highly will others value them.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

That's something that rationally and logically I can't try to figure out, how somebody "transitions" so rapidly and so drastically, but I don't worry about it now.

In the league, anything can happen. Once one team gets momentum, things can change really fast.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be faster changing and more unpredictable than the present.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

When I was discovered, everything happened like dominos. I don't know how to talk about it now because it's too mindblowing. It's so unreal, and yet it's real.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

Things can change very fast in football.

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

They say it can all change with one song, and in my case, that rings very true, I was shocked that it happened this quickly.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.