change catalyst Quotes

Never let a good crisis go to waste

The moment you've convinced someone that you truly understand her dreams and feelings, mental and behavioral change becomes possible, and the foundation for a breakthrough has been laid.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.

Movements aren’t built on leadership but on the movement itself — of individuals taking that first step from inertia to action, as if passing through a doorway

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

You can't change anyone else but people do change in relationship to your change. All relationships are a system, and when any one part of a system changes, it affects the other part.

Men start revolutionary changes for reasons connected with their private lives.

The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening.

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.

For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

It's not what you go through, but how that experience affects you. For some people, it could be a near car crash that changes your life. For other people, it could take five years of going to prison for them to realize they need change in their life. So it's not really the experience but more how the experience affects you.

You are your only hope, because we're not changing until you do. Our job is to keep coming at you, as hard as we can, with everything that angers, upsets, or repulses you, until you understand. We love you that much, whether we're aware of it or not. The whole world is about you.

Ultimately, change will happen when problems persist and enough people are concerned.

As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'

It comes down to this: If not you, then who?

When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

We can see how the role of mobile has changed in past 20 years. It is a perfect example of how one innovation can change an entire era.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

We learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.