Rapid Change Quotes

• In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

  Brian Tracy

  Moving On, Action, Rapids

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Sep 15, 2012

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• In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

  J. Paul Getty

  Change, Worst Enemy, Insightful

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• The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Growth, Age

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.183, Routledge

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• In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.

  Brian Tracy

  Reality, Turbulence, Rapids

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 17, 2011

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• We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve.

  Tim Brown

  Looks, Way, Problem

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• It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Time, Future

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Motivational, Change, Mistake

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• We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

  Nathan M. Pusey

  Change, Play, Growth

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• There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

  Peter Drucker

  Technology, Economy, Institutions

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.163, Routledge

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• One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Order, Use, Way

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• The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

  Earl Warren

  Patriotism, Paradox, States

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, (p. 16), October 23, 1971.

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• Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.

  Ron Suskind

  Stress, Suffering, Stuff

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• A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

  B. F. Skinner

  Hands, Culture, Novelty

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• Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.

  Jennifer James

  Change, Skills, Twenties

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.

  Sheila Ballantyne

  Change, Feelings, Rapids

  Sheila Ballantyne (1975). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Doubleday Books

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• Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

  Al Bernstein

  Years, Parent, Age

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• Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.

  William C. Oates

  War, History, Unexpected

  Frank Haskell, Franklin Aretas Haskell, William C. Oates (1992). “Gettysburg: Two Eyewitness Accounts”, Bantam Books

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• I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Memories, Rocks, Perspective

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• I don't think anybody can prepare on a physical level. It isn't possible to prepare for what is about to happen. The Pentagon gives us one to three years left of normal life on this planet. Now you have Al Gores movie "An Inconvenient Truth", whom I find very optimistic, as he gives us ten years. But I don't know a single scientist on the planet who gives us ten years or anybody else who gives us that long. What the Pentagon talks about is the rapid changes in climate, making it impossible to live in certain areas. Exactly where those areas are, they don't know.

  Drunvalo Melchizedek

  Optimistic, Thinking, Years

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• I think it's almost impossible for any expert to predict for the rapid changes we see in the Middle East. They are rapid and they will continue for quite a while.

  Abdallah II

  Thinking, Middle East, Experts

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry.

  Charles Kettering

  Science, Bankers, Banking

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• 'IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO IT,' WAS THE TERRIBLE VERDICT. 'IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU ARE A WOMAN AND WOULD NEED A PROTECTOR, AND EVEN IF IT WERE POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO TRAVEL ALONE YOU WOULD NEED TO CARRY SO MUCH BAGGAGE THAT IT WOULD DETAIN YOU IN MAKING RAPID CHANGES. BESIDES YOU SPEAK NOTHING BUT ENGLISH, SO THERE IS NO USE TALKING ABOUT IT; NO ONE BUT A MAN CAN DO THIS.'

  Nellie Bly

  Badass, Men, Talking

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.103, Golgotha Press

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• What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting.

  Barack Obama

  People, Shrinking, World

  Source: time.com

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• As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this.

  Robert James Thomson

  Eye, Age, Needs

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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