Charles Gati Quotes

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Change will always be violent.

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming.

Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.

Reform or die.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

It is sure to be a year on the brink of catastrophe or rejuvenation.

One of the reasons that change takes place is that the people who produce it believe change can take place.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Custom is petrification; nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

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Change is not always accomplished peacefully, but that does not make it disadventageous.

‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

I want to change a lot.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Crises are harbingers of evolution.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. Change may be announced by a small ache, so that you think you're catching cold. Or you may feel a faint disgust for something you loved yesterday. It may even take the form of a hunger that peanuts won't satisfy. Isn't overeating said to be one of the strongest symptoms of discontent. And isn't discontent the lever of change?

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.