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1. “'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.”

Tom Peters

Leadership Strategy, Business Growth, Consulting Success, Market Trends, Planning, Change

2. “A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

Franz Kafka

Books, Art, Expression, Emotion, Philosophy, Change

3. “A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

Franz Kafka

Books, Knowledge, Awakening, Change, Self, Transformation

4. “A boy becomes a man when a man is needed.”

John Steinbeck

Growth, Manhood, Responsibility, Change, Life, Development

5. “A business that gets small again is a business reduced to the level of its owner’s personal resistance to change.”

Michael Gerber

Business Growth, Owner Resistance, Change Challenges, Growth, Resistance, Change

6. “A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.”

Tom Peters

Career Development, Skill Growth, Leadership Strategy, Success, Change, Learning

7. “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”

Marcel Proust

Weather, Change, Recreate World, Personal Renewal, Environmental Influence, Fresh Perspectives

8. “A change is as good as a rest.”

Stephen King

Change Rest, Equal Relief, Fresh Perspective, Change, Rest, Perspective

9. “A company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph.”

Warren Buffett

Business, Perspective, Change, Adaptability, Long-Term

10. “A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.”

Emily Dickinson

Death, Life, Change, Vitality, Growth, Transformation

11. “A different result requires doing something different.”

Gary Keller

Different Actions, Change Results, Actions, Change, Results, Different

12. “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

Winston Churchill

Fanaticism, Stubbornness, Mindset, Change, Debate

13. “A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.”

Nelson Mandela

Concern, Community, Humanity, Change, Dreams

14. “A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all.”

John F. Kennedy

Peaceful Change, Constructive Revolution, Social Progress, Change, Revolution, Obligation

15. “A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Democracy, Progress, Society, Governance, Change

16. “A great thought begins by seeing something differently, with a shift of the mind’s eye.”

Albert Einstein

Perspective, Thinking, Insight, Change, Vision

17. “A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.”

Mark Twain

Habits, Change, Patience, Self-Improvement, Discipline

18. “A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.”

Joseph Campbell

Hero, Change, Transformation, Challenge, Status Quo, Growth

19. “A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”

John Steinbeck

Light, Change, Awakening, Beauty, Fear, People

20. “A life change, spiritual change, physical change or some kind of creation your soul came here to express… Whatever your heart is craving, know that you can do it. You wouldn’t have the impulse if you didn’t already have the goods to make it happen.”

Marie Forleo

Soul Purpose, Life Transformation, Heart’s Desire, Change, Soul, Purpose

21. “A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.”

Thomas Jefferson

Patience, Government, Change, Social Progress, Political Optimism

22. “A little rebellion is a good thing.”

Thomas Jefferson

Rebellion, Change, Politics, Social Progress, Political Philosophy

23. “A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: 'If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?'”

Mark Zuckerberg

Innovation, Thought Experiment, Business, Social Media, Openness, Change

24. “A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.”

George Bernard Shaw

Love And Change, Relationship Reflection, Romance, Love, Relationship, Change