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Change And Development Quotes About The Importance Of Adaptability

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.
Mahatma Gandhi

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Kakuzo Okakura

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

The only thing that is constant is change.
Heraclitus

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo

The only thing that is constant is change, and the only way to deal with change is to embrace it.
Brian Tracy

Change And Development Quotes About The Power Of Innovation

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
Peter Drucker

Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.
Michael Porter

Innovation is the calling card of the future.
Anna Eshoo

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat.
Anonymous

Innovation is the key to success in this new age of business.
Tony Robbins

Innovation is the lifeblood of any business.
Barbara Corcoran

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.
Peter Drucker

Change And Development Quotes About The Necessity Of Growth

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
Benjamin Franklin

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The only constant in life is change.
Heraclitus

Change And Development Quotes About The Inevitability Of Change

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

Without change, there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
William Pollard

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Alvin Toffler

Change And Development Quotes About The Impact Of Technology On Change

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
Sydney J. Harris

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
Bill Gates

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
Eric Schmidt

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Bill Gates

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Bill Gates

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
John Lasseter

The human spirit must prevail over technology.
Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Albert Einstein

Change And Development Quotes About The Benefits Of Collaboration In Development

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
Helen Keller

Collaboration allows us to know more than we are capable of knowing by ourselves.
Paul Solarz

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African Proverb

Collaboration is the best way to work. It's only way to work, really.
Antony Starr

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.
James Cash Penney

Collaboration is the key to success in almost all fields, and it's often the key to great science.
Aaron Ciechanover

Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives.
Paul D. Miller

Collaboration is the essence of life. The wind, bees and flowers work together, to spread the pollen.
Amit Ray

Collaboration is a force multiplier.
John C. Maxwell

Collaboration is the new competition.
Jacqueline Novogratz

Change And Development Quotes About The Role Of Leadership In Driving Change

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Ralph Nader

The art of leadership is not to make changes in what people do, but in how they think.
Unknown

The challenge of leadership is to be strong, but not rude; be kind, but not weak; be bold, but not bully; be thoughtful, but not lazy; be humble, but not timid; be proud, but not arrogant; have humor, but without folly.
Jim Rohn

The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
Carlos Ghosn

The most powerful leadership tool you have is your own personal example.
John Wooden

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.
John Buchan

The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
John C. Maxwell

The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
Blaine Lee

Change And Development Quotes About Embracing New Opportunities

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu

Change And Development Quotes About Overcoming Resistance To Change

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic.
Peter Drucker

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson

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

Change before you have to.
Jack Welch

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.
Mark Twain

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
John C. Maxwell

Change And Development Quotes About The Role Of Failure In Development

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry Ford

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Edison

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
Henry Ford

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Truman Capote

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J.K. Rowling

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe.
Sumner Redstone

Change And Development Quotes About The Value Of Learning From Mistakes

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way.
Al Franken

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

The only way to avoid mistakes is to have no new ideas.
Albert Einstein

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.
William George Jordan

Admitting our mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom. We learn more from knowing our mistakes.
Anonymous

Change And Development Quotes About The Need For Continuous Improvement

The only way to do well is to do good.
Benjamin Franklin

The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

Change And Development Quotes About The Importance Of A Growth Mindset

Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale

The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.
Unknown

Change And Development Quotes About The Potential For Transformation Through Development

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

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