Big Changes Quotes

• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.

  Zig Ziglar

  Regret, Life Changing, Scary

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 17, 2013

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• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  Harrison Ford

  Inspirational, Change, Second Chance

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Leadership, Mistake

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• Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

  Amy Cuddy

  Monday, Tiny, Bigs

  "Your body language may shape who you are". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June, 2012.

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• ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But from what he could see, big change almost never happens. People simply feel lost. They have no idea what to say or do or feel or think. they become messes and tend to remain messes.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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• My belief is that if you grapple with the big changes until you really get them and if you develop an internal compass to steer your marketing and communications, you will be working in a discipline that is more exciting, more intellectually rich, more delightfully complex and ultimately more rewarding than it has ever been.

  James Murdoch

  Business, Communication, Discipline

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• Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

  Roger Enrico

  Creativity, Small Changes, Bigs

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• Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Giving, Warning, Remember

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In terms of getting people to experiment more and take more risk, there are at least three things that immediately come to my mind. Number one, of course, is role-modeling it yourself. Number two is when people take intelligent, smart risks and yet it doesn't work out, not shooting them. And number three, being honest with yourself. If the culture you have is radically different from an experiment and take-risk culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make—and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

  John P. Kotter

  Smart, Intelligent, Two

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• When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise.
  When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Past, Events, Negative

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

  Harvey Mackay

  Change, Dream, Feet

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• If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come

  Mitch Daniels

  Majority, Citizens, Fundamentals

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong decision. Our mental and emotional states fluctuate madly when we make big changes in our lives, and some days we could tight-rope across Manhattan, and other days we are too weary to clean our teeth. This is normal. This is natural. This is change.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Emotional, Decision, Teeth

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• I ultimately realized we had gotten together for the music. It was such a huge thing in our lives. We were at the same age, same place in our careers, and we had great fun. But when I became a mother and was at home, I realized that in reality we had very little else in common. I wasn't happy, wasn't getting what I needed. It's tough to realize that. But while a big change can be painful, it also was for the best. I'm happier now than I've ever been.

  Linda Eder

  Mother, Fun, Home

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• A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

  Roz Savage

  Two, Years, Proud

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• I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

  Jenna Dewan

  Sleep, Thinking, Firsts

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• You need a human story to intersect those points of interest with real stakes on the line, and then things start to be fun, where you can see the ramifications, you see the impact on people's lives of big changes - like taking a man of science, like a surgeon, and robbing him of his understanding of the universe and forcing him into a newer and wider understanding.

  Jon Spaihts

  Fun, Real, Men

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The only thing that can effect a big change in personality is something that physically rewires the brain and/or alters the body's chemical milieu.

  Neal Stephenson

  Personality, Brain, Body

  "Neal Stephenson Speaks about His Latest Epic: 'Seveneves'". Interview With Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 21, 2015.

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• Donald Trump's got to do some big changes, because what he was voted on. But when you think about how to do it, it would take massive expertise, which his people, believe me, do not have.

  David Brooks

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's also important that I, or [Producer] Karen Pritzker, also say that this film [ "Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope"] is not going to singlehandedly solve crime and poverty, or make big changes.

  James Redford

  Stress, Resilience, Important

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The big change is the proximity to death.

  Leonard Cohen

  Proximity, Bigs

  "Leonard Cohen Explores The Fragility Of Life In 'You Want It Darker'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2016.

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• Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, President, Passionate

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Most of us are facing big changes in our lives. But, in our more evolved moments, I think we can all agree that fear-based worries are a waste of time and only create the experiences we are trying to avoid.

  Brenda Strong

  Thinking, Worry, Trying

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