Charles Handy Quotes

It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.

Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

Being complacent was never going to teach us anything.

When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

If you throw a frog in boiling water, he'll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won't notice and end up boiled.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

I know people can change-right down to my bones, through every cell, in every fiber of my body-I now that people can change. It is just a question of when and in what context.

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their way in like wind through the shutters, seeping into the cellar like swamp water.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

When we’ve ceased hearing or changing, we need a new environment.

We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better.

I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.

No one should let themselves get used to anything.

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.