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“Combat leaves a lasting impression on men’s minds, changing them as radically as any crucial experience through which they live.”
Roy R. Grinker Sr. (1900–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Managers are not confronted with problems that are independent of each other, but with dynamic situations that consist of complex systems of changing problems that interact with each other. I call such situations messes. Problems are extracted from messes by analysis. Managers do not solve problems, they manage messes.”
Russell L. Ackoff (1919–2009) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in Donella Meadows (2008) Thinking in Systems: a Primer. p. 1.
“An organization is typically composed of changing individuals. Now any individual generally has access to many communication channels, of which this particular organization is only one. In particular, education is such a channel. Thus, the organization is getting the benefit of a considerable amount of information which is free to it.”
Kenneth Arrow (1921–2017) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Agenda of Organizations", in R. Marris (ed.), The Corporate Society (1974)
“We know that Hong Kong, after the handover to mainland China, has been trying for universal suffrage … We know that mainland China has made promises and we're of course pleased to see Hong Kong changing in this direction.”
Ma Ying-jeou (born 1950) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: "Ma says meeting with Xi Jinping rests on popular approval" in The China Post, 27 July 2013.
“Most wars are not won in a single battle, what I’m looking forward to is changing the course this country is on. I don’t know if that happens in this election cycle or not.”
Ted Cruz (born 1970) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In an interview with 's Off Message podcast. (July 18, 2016)
“We were good friends until Liverpool started winning, then he [Mourinho] started changing his mind.”
Rafael Benítez (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.”
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas (born 1947) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Alfred-Maurice de Zayas 2013 Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order
“Economic partition and repartition of Africa was going on all the time, because the proportions of the spoils that went to different capitalist countries kept changing.”
Walter Rodney (1942–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“transforming America is more than just elections. It's about changing our culture.”
Bernie Sanders (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Students’ role doesn’t end in the classroom. Student-led movements have always been a part in changing history and fulfilling peoples’ dreams of achieving freedom and dignity [interview after her speech]”
Tawakkol Karman (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In this type of the [...] every five years, the secularism is changing the meaning. So now I am thinking that I must come with a new meaning of the secularism.”
Narendra Modi (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have not invested well in marketing ourselves. It is partly because of my trait. I believe that if my conviction is right, I will not need to go and explain myself to anyone. I believed that ultimately everyone will figure out what you are. We are changing this approach.”
Mukesh Ambani (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“CEOs need keep an open mind so they can adapt to a rapidly changing world and need to bring an abundant dose of emotional intelligence to the job.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just realize that when you come to UTA your education is just starting. The world is changing so quickly. Education is a forever commitment. It never stops.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Indra Nooyi said, uta.edu/news (March 22 2023).
“To lead in an ever-changing world, leaders must adapt and stay nimble.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“SEWA is about political action, and that has always been at the heart of what we have done. It is about changing the balance of power in favor of the poor. That has meant constant tension, with big farmers, moneylenders, contractors, big traders, government, local panchayats, and so on.”
Ela Bhatt (1933–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever changing world, there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound come in human life; they are just like the two sides of the same coin.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we begin to understand , we begin to understand that we’re part of an ever-changing, interlocking, non-linear, kaleidoscopic world.”
W. Brian Arthur (born 1945) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: W. Brian Arthur in: Mitchell M. Waldrop (2004) Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos. p. 333
“According to [the general equilibrium approach to monetary theory], the principal way in which financial policies and events affect aggregate demand is by changing the valuations of physical assets relative to their replacement costs.”
James Tobin (1918–2002) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 29 As cited in: William Pool. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2, (1976), p. 292
“The real us present, and it is transfigured... It is everywhere a reality at once immutable and changing. Matter is present, submitted to a luminous phantasmagoria. What Monet paints is the space that exists between himself and things.”
Gustave Geffroy (1855–1926) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1895 in: Steven Z. Levine, Claude Monet (1994), Monet, Narcissus, and Self-Reflection: The Modernist Myth of the Self. p. 93
“I think I had been badly affected by ... the romance of Abstract Expressionism ... particularly as it filtered out to places like Princeton and around the country, which was the idea of the 'artist as a terrifically sensitive ever-changing, ever ambitious person', particularly [described] in magazines like Art News and Arts, which I read religiously.”
Frank Stella (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seek more and more direct contact and communion with nature – with the soul invigorative as well bodily beneficial influences of earth, sky, sun , wind and rain. Feeling oneness with nature. Face up to the weather and meet all its changing needs. Accept the weather as a whole. It then becomes an ally.”
Gulzarilal Nanda (1898–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Politicians often like to believe that we exist to make law - and that only through constantly changing the law we achieve our policy objectives. That view of political leadership is mistaken.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our courage and our resolve will be tested. And so too will our imagination. Because our world is changing. And if we are prepared to imagine and to shape it in new ways, we will find ourselves stronger, more free - a better, closer community.”
Alex Salmond (1954–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the theory of electric fields it is assumed that points have meaning. ...Physicists using general relativity... cannot speak of a point, except by naming some features of the field lines that will uniquely distinguish that point. ...the network of relationships evolve with time... constantly changing.”
Lee Smolin (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal. Nature is in this sense like an actor who has only different roles.”
B. K. S. Iyengar (1918–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You don’t need a PhD in climate science to understand what’s going on, that we have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing.”
“We have overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. That you cannot tie any one event to that is not the same as doubt about the whole thing. There is no debate in the scientific community.”
“The musical language which made the classical style possible is that of tonality, which was not a massive, immobile system but a living, gradually changing language from its beginning. It had reached a new and important turning point just before the style of Haydn and Mozart took shape.”
Charles Rosen (1927–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Within the indigenous world the act of coming to know something involves a personal transformation. The knower and the known are indissolubly linked and changed in a fundamental way. ...it is a dynamic and living process, an aspect of the ever-changing, ever-renewing process of nature.”
F. David Peat (1938–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The growth and maintenance of new synaptic terminals makes memory persist. ...The ability to grow new synaptic connections as a result of experience appears to have been conserved throughout evolution. As an example... the cortical maps of the body surface are subject to constant modification in response to changing input from sensory pathways.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would be relevant … to point out the sinister part played by speed, by belief in speed as a value, by, in a word, a kind of impatience that has had a profound effect in changing even the very rhythms of the life of the spirit for the worse.”
Gabriel Marcel (1889–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Prokofiev was not alone among the leading composers of the twentieth century in changing his style repeatedly in the course of his career: Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Bartók, and others modified their musical language drastically at various stages of their creative lives. In Prokofiev’s case, he always maintained certain stylistic facets throughout the transformations of his musical language.”
Boris Berman (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me it is important to live in harmony with developments in Sweden and all over the changing world around us that we are actually part of.”
Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the prototype of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants.”
Robert T. Bakker (born 1945) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dinosaur Renaissance", Scientific American 232, no. 4 (April 1975), 58—78
“We are changing the law and I am personally working on it to bring 16-year-olds into the purview. According to the police, 50 per cent of the crimes are committed by 16-year-olds who know the Juvenile Justice Act. But now for premeditated murder, rape, if we bring them into the purview of the adult world, then it will scare them.”
Maneka Gandhi (born 1956) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Juvenile Justice Act, as quoted in "Juveniles who commit rape should be tried as adults: Maneka Gandhi", IBNLive (14 July 2014)
“The thinking that underpins strategic planning is a legacy of more stable times when the environment was changing sufficiently slowly for an effective corporate response to emerge from methodical organisational routines.”
Max Boisot (1943–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The intellectually aggressive hedgehogs knew one big thing and sought, under the banner of parsimony, to expand the explanatory power of that big thing to “cover” new cases; the more eclectic foxes knew many little things and were content to improvise ad hoc solutions to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.”
Philip Tetlock (born 1954) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: Justin Fox. "How to Be Bad at Forecasting," in Harvard Business Review, May 11, 2012.
“All people, whether Aspie or neuro-typical are predisposed by their society to make guesses, jump to conclusions and then seek to defend those conclusions, regardless of logic or changing circumstance. This is sloppy, illogical thinking which may not hinder your life too much, under normal circumstances. But if you want to be a great detective, then such thinking will absolutely ruin your chances.”
Alexei Maxim Russell wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You owned the world when you were a young man, felt it like it was fashioned to fit your hands. You could do anything with it you wanted to. But the world kept changing, and sooner or later there came a day when it didn’t feel like you were the one the world was interested in any more.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Through Ashoka, the Gates Foundation gains access to the World Bank aided Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project, locally known as Jeevika Trust. The goal of this intervention is to increase vaccinations in Bihar by providing behavior changing solutions. Both the CSBC and the Gates Foundation also work closely with the Uttar Pradesh government.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His faith in humanity began from an acknowledgement of limitation, not an illusion about perfectibility. He knew that joy flowed from honesty, rather than around it—sound familiar? In a similar way, Christians, whose identity is found apart from our ever-changing and often hopeless abilities and attributes, are free to laugh at ourselves. This is part and parcel of Christian joy.”
Jim Henson (1936–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Q: At the time of death when the elements are changing rapidly and there is confusion and fear, what is the method to fix the mind in positivity? A: It depends on regular practice. It can't be done without prior practice of concentration. At the time of death, people lose control over the mind. Only a few keep awareness of God at that moment.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: June 17, 2016
“The development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time. ...Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events.”
Gerald James Whitrow (1912–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“the very idea that we, as atomized individuals, even lots of atomized individuals, could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet's climate system or changing the global economy is objectively nuts. We can only meet this tremendous challenge together, as part of a massive and organized global movement.”
Naomi Klein (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Australia's distance from Europe was probably only tolerable because it had strategic commodities which England, threatened by changing European alliances, might some day be unable to produce in the northern hemisphere. Flax was the first conqueror - a hollow conqueror - of the distance which so often shaped Australia's destiny.”
Geoffrey Blainey (born 1930) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Externally there's... diversification of mathematics. New ideas keep coming in... from the outside world, and they generate new problems, new theories. So you advance by expanding your frontiers as you interact with the outside world, and the outside world keeps changing.”
Michael Atiyah (1929–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our legislation in this area needed to be updated, and especially in light of France’s request for armed assistance after the attacks in Paris. We realized that our existing legislation was not flexible enough. We live in a fast changing world, and our laws on overseas military support must reflect new realities.”
Timo Soini (born 1962) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Timo Soini, Finland’s foreign minister, on Finland responding to other nations that are in need of support, such as battling ISIS, quoted on Defense News, "Finnish Legislation Seeks Direct Military Support for Partners"…
“Raise a song for her, O Muse! The violet-crownèd maiden, And praise her soft throat's changing hues, Her low voice, laughter-laden. Sing yet again her thousand charms, Her eyes entrancing splendour, Her swarthy cheeks and supple arms And bosom dark and tender. Yea, sing forevermore of her, My mistress soft-beguiling, Fairest of all who are, or were, My Sappho, sweetly-smiling.”
Alcaeus (born 631 BC) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paraphrase (tr. James S. Easby-Smith, 1901)
“Humans do not seem to like changing and the majority of people with whom I have worked actually hate leaving the status quo of their comfort zones.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source