Jack Canfield Quotes

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.

Making progress on longstanding challenges requires a different lens and a new approach.

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.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

When what you’re doing doesn’t work for 50 years, it’s time to try something new.

We cannot continue doing the same thing and expect different results

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.

We have shaken things up when necessary.

The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

If you want to really change something, do not try to fight the existing reality. create a new reality.

I know that without change there would be no progress, but I am not going to mistake mere change for progress.

If you change nothing, nothing will change.

What got us to where we are today is not going to get us to where we need to go tomorrow.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

Real change comes when people are enabled to use their thinking and their energy in a new way, using a different system of thought, different language, and having fresh visions of the future.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.

The point is, you can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to keep working.

Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.