Resistance To Change Quotes

• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

  Charles Kettering

  Change, Moving On, Clever

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1959*). “In Memoriam, Charles F. Kettering”

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• Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

  Gautama Buddha

  Resistance, Painful

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• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

  Arnold Bennett

  Change, Moving On, Life Changing

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

  Marc Bekoff

  Ignorance, Resistance, Greater

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.167, Shambhala Publications

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• I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

  Dennis Quaid

  Resistance, Things Change, Used

  "Topher Grace & Dennis Quaid". Interview, people.com. January 12, 2005.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Change, Acceptance, Second Chance

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• Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

  Stephen King

  Might, Resistance, Given

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change. The education process can involve one-on-one discussions, presentations to groups, or memos and reports.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Communication, Ideas

  John P. Kotter (2013). “John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do”, p.22, Harvard Business Press

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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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• Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

  Chris Paine

  Resistance, Obstacles, Biggest Obstacles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

  Anatole France

  Life, Change, People Changing

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

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• This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

  Meryl Streep

  Inspirational, Change, Graduation

  "Meryl Streep Barnard Graduation: ‘You Just Have To Make Your Mother And Father Proud’". Barnard College Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

  Gloria Steinem

  Resistance, Firsts, Social

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• there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Change, Resistance, Sin

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith”

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• To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

  Marci Shimoff

  Baby, Japan, Progress

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• The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so that those who might be affected by any changes see them as useful and beneficial for them. This isn't as hard as it sounds. You just have to be vigilant in paying attention to how you're influencing the lives of people who matter.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Moving, Keys, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

  Nick Nolte

  Men, Likes, Resistance

  Source: collider.com

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• The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Long, Resistance, Life Is

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• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, War, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1786-1787”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.

  Abdallah II

  Ideas, Resistance

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• Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

  Frank Herbert

  Resistance, Helping, Belief

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.308, Penguin

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• Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

  Guy Finley

  Dark, Light, Resistance

  "Fear and the ‘Anti-Change Factor’" by Guy Finley, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. But for some reason-force of habit, cultural norms, resistance to change-there is a fundamental disconnect whereby these feelings don’t translate into changes of behavior.

  Brian Greene

  Animal, Practice, People

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• Much more should have been achieved by a Labour Government in office and Labour pressure in opposition. Against the dogged resistance to change, we should have pitted a stronger will to change. I conclude that a move to the Left is needed.

  Anthony Crosland

  Moving, Government, Should Have

  Anthony Crosland (1974). “Socialism now and other essays”, Jonathan Cape

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