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Resistance to change15 quotes
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1956Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. — John Milton · 1643One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — Walter Bagehot · 1872We fear change. — Garth Algar · 1992All 15 quotes →Change6 quotes
It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1956We fear change. — Garth Algar · 1992Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. — Alan Watts · 1995Future shock... The shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler · 1970Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. — Arundhati Roy · 1997It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. You don't want them changed. — Pontius Pilate · 1988Innovation4 quotes
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry! — Ira Gershwin · 1937I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1513New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. — John Locke · 1690Status quo3 quotes
I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. — Niccolo Machiavelli · 1513New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. — John Locke · 1690Progress2 quotes
Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy. — John Henry · 2011Acceptance1 quote
Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. — Alan Watts · 1995Circle of life1 quote
It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1956Entrenched interests1 quote
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787Human nature1 quote
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — Walter Bagehot · 1872Nature of progress1 quote
Truth…never comes into the world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. — John Milton · 1643New ideas1 quote
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. — Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1866Originality1 quote
They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry! — Ira Gershwin · 1937Political progress1 quote
Come Senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall. — Bob Dylan · 1963Politics1 quote
Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments. — Alexander Hamilton · 1787