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Humans are allergic to change.
by Grace Hopper

Humans are allergic to change.
They love to say, "We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

A ship in port is safe,
but that's not what ships are built for.
Sail out to sea and do new things.
- Grace Hopper

The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
- Grace Hopper

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.
It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

 

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness
than to ask for permission.
- Grace Hopper

If you do something once,
people will call it an accident.
If you do it twice, t
hey call it a coincidence.
But do it a third time, and
you've just proven a natural law.
- Grace Hopper

We humans feel an instinctive need to know
what is coming next - what we can count upon.
We fear change - even the most positive change.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Humans are essentially storytellers.
- Walter Fisher

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal.
As spirits they belong to the eternal world,
but as animals they inhabit time.
- C. S. Lewis

Humans make illogical decisions.
- Spock (character in Star Trek movies and TV shows)

Humans do have an amazing capacity
for believing what they choose,
and excluding that which is painful.
- Spock (character in Star Trek television series)

The only way to store information is by agreement.
The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind.
Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive.
Humans punish themselves endlessly
for not being what they believe they should be.
We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others,
but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A person is smart. People are dumb,
panicky dangerous animals and you know it.
Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew
the Earth was the center of the universe.
Five hundred years ago,
everybody knew the Earth was flat,
and fifteen minutes ago,
you knew that humans were alone on this planet.
Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.
- the movie Men in Black

For me, the most powerful expressions of true Christianity
in this material world are an unconditional love of all humans,
and an uncompromising commitment to caring for all
who are sick, infirm, or troubled -
as expressed in the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Let us CHOOSE to bless ALL those around us,
not with an EXPECTATION that they should be more evolved,
but with UNDERSTANDING, and with our INTENTION
for a magnificent future for all humans.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson

If the only tool you have is a hammer,
you tend to see every problem as a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

The world moves, and ideas that were
once good are not always good.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau

We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You can't change the past,
but you can ruin the present
by worrying about the future.
- Anonymous

If you don't like something, change it,
If you can't change it, change your attitude
- Maya Angelou

Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF
This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder)
I wrote to myself recently.
Live in your joy today.
Be authentic. Love yourself. First.
Love others from your own abundance.
Life Changes. Circumstances change.
Sometimes you try to fit your old way
of being into new circumstances
rather than becoming new yourself.
Embrace transformation as an opportunity.
And keep on writing love letters to yourself.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What is it about sameness that so draws me,
and how could I begin to have
that same kind of attraction to change?
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- Carl Jung

Change your thoughts, change your life.
- James Allen

If a child lives with criticism,
he learns to condemn.
...
If a child lives with fear,
he learns to be apprehensive.
...
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns to be confident.
...
If a child lives with acceptance,
he learns to love.
- Dorothy Law Nolte

We must be the change we wish to see.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Our only security is our ability to change.
- John Lilly

Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw

Change always comes bearing gifts.
- Price Pritchett

When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown

We did not change as we grew older;
we just became more clearly ourselves.
- Lynn Hall

When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller

The dream you are living is your creation.
It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Real love is accepting other people the way they are
without trying to change them.
- don Miguel Ruiz

We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell

It is not the strongest of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

The inherent nature of life is constant change.
To fear change is to fear life itself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child,
we should first examine it and see whether it is
not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
- Carl Jung

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson

Change is the essential process of all existence.
- Spock character in Star Trek

I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches,
letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
- Pauline R. Kezer

It's all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung

If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho

I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

I have the right to love many people at once
and to change my prince often.
- Anais Nin

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.
- Henri de Lubac


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