Gail Sheehy Quotes

The world is changing and people don't like change.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already.

Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption.

I feel that when we leave here I think it's just another transition and whatever it is I hope I'm prepared for it.

I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring.

Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort.

I think the world is changing. And it's changing so fast that people have to change with it.

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don't think that's quite it; it's more like jazz. There is more improvisation. Someone once wrote that the sound of surprise is jazz, and if there's any one thing that we must try to get used to in this world, it's surprise and the unexpected. Truly, we are living in world where the only thing that's constant is change.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.

Doing business is all about providing a good product or service to your customers. A good businessman is he who knows that what is successful today may not be so tomorrow. Technology changes so fast, and so do people's needs and wants. That's why it would do well for a businessman to know how to adapt to change. He must constantly reinvent the business, or it won't last.

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to.

All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there.

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

The technology is already incredible and will improve massively in the next few years. Think about what you could do.

We're in a freefall into future. We don't know where we're going. Things are changing so fast, and always when you're going through a long tunnel, anxiety comes along. And all you have to do to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act. It's a very interesting shift of perspective and that's all it is... joyful participation in the sorrows and everything changes.

The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.