Real, lasting change tends to take time
- Most REAL change is slow. Dalai Lama
- Change, like healing, takes time. Veronica Roth
- Change isn’t easy, it takes time. Caroline Kennedy
- But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed. Paulo Coelho
- Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . . Success feeds on itself. Tal Ben-Shahar
- Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it. Margaret Atwood
- Time allows change to take place and the very evolution of the universe is what requires some conception of time. Brian Greene
- Life is incredibly short, yet we’re always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn’t acceptable. Ted Rall
- As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect. Malcolm Gladwell
- I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world. Bertice Berry
- I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten. Veronica Roth
- I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful. Leni Zumas
- Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change. Michel’le
- The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they’re baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must! Hrithik Roshan
- When you have a big life change, it takes a long time to get used to either the new format or the understanding that you need to create a new dream. Or if things didn’t work out, mourning the death of that dream. It’s hard, because that’s a very private journey. Drew Barrymore
- It’s a long journey – the change can only be measured in increments of five years at a time. For every two steps forward, there is one step back. Don’t let that discourage you, because you can play a big part in ensuring that measurable change takes place in the coming decade. Jack Norris
- Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent. Richard P. Rumelt
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Personal change happens slowly
- The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- When we enter the spiritual realm we are always focused on those big, life altering miracles. Here is a truth that isn’t sold to us. Change is a long, gradual process. Yes, you can make things happen immediately, but quite often, amazing things are happening that you can’t see. Ruben Papian
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History changes slowly
- To change history is very slow. Agnes Varda
- A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don’t even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they’re so mundane that we just take them for granted. But history shows that it’s the mundane changes that are more important than the dramatic ‘newsworthy’ events. Robert D. Kaplan
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Ideas change slowly
- With the growth of knowledge, our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference. John Dewey
- A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take. Beryl Markham
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Mindsets change slowly
- It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. Narendra Modi
- It takes me a long time to change. The change happens in living and not through thinking. Harry Callahan
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Character and habits change slowly
- The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;–there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action. Walter Scott
- The amount of time it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be, is only the amount of time it takes you to change the vibration within you. Instant manifestation could be yours if you could instantly change the vibration. Esther Hicks
- Breaking old habits and forming new ones always takes time, but it is worth it in the end. Joyce Meyer
- Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old habits to become obsolete. By the end of that time, you’ll have adapted to a new pattern. In a sense, you’ll have found a new way of life. Dan Millman
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Established rules change slowly
- To change rules that are already in place takes time, energy, perseverance and a lot of hard work. Peter McWilliams
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Institutions change slowly
- Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves – churches especially so. Gene Robinson
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Some argue personal change does not need to happen slowly
- Change does not take time – it takes commitment. Thomas Crum
- Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process – it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision. Tony Robbins
- It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem…Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it? Richard Bach
- Most people think it takes a long time to change. It doesn’t. Change is immediate! Instantaneous! It may take a long time to decide to change…but change happens in a heartbeat! Andy Andrews
- You can change anything about yourself quite quickly. All you have to do is give up the belief system that says that it takes a long time to change. Robert Anthony
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Maybe the truth is that change can be both slow and rapid
- That’s the thing about change. It can be gradual. Slow and almost unnoticeable. Or it can be sudden, and you don’t even know how you could’ve been any other way. Penelope Douglas
- Some changes are so slow, you don’t notice them, others are so fast, they don’t notice you. Ashleigh Brilliant
When it comes to modern technology and its impacts, change is extremely rapid
- 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
- Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today’s hyper-connected world. Al Gore
- The thing that’s changed the most has just been the rapid technology. Jeffrey Katzenberg
- Technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. Larry Page
- We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing… The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. Daniel H. Wilson
