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quotes[0]='Reengineering must be fundamental, radical and drastic. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Michael Hammer & James Champy 1993, American management consultants</i>'

quotes[1]='It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out nor more doubtful of success nor more dangerous to handle than to initiate a new order of things. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Machiavelli 1446-1507, Italian statesman and philosopher</i>'

quotes[2]='Constant dripping hollows out a stone. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Lucretius 98-55 BC, Roman poet</i>'

quotes[3]='Nothing endures but change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Heraclites 540 BC – 480 BC, Greek Philosopher </i>'

quotes[4]='Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Henry Brooks Adams 1838-1919, American writer and historian</i>'

quotes[5]='Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Confucius 551BC - 479BC, Chinese philosopher</i>'

quotes[6]='Innovation is more than a new method. It is a new view of the universe, as one of risk rather than of chance or of certainty. It is a new view of mans role in the universe; he creates order by taking risks. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter F. Drucker, American Management Guru</i>'

quotes[7]='No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Heraclitus 540 BC – 480 BC, Greek Philosopher</i>'

quotes[8]='The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. <p &nbsp;</p><i>George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish playwright and critic</i>'

quotes[9]='Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Bertrand Rusell 1872-1970, British philosopher and mathematician</i>'

quotes[10]='Management that wants to change an institution must first show it loves that institution. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John Tusa 1936-, British radio journalist</i>'

quotes[11]='If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Giuseppe di Lampedusa 1896-1957, Italian writer in The Leopard</i>'

quotes[12]='All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>G.K. Chesterton 1874-1936, English novelist and poet</i>'

quotes[13]='One of the things I learnt when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself I could not change others. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Nelson Mandela 1918-, Nobel prize winner, South African statesman and President since 1994.</i>'

quotes[14]='It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our business men, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Isaac Asimov 1920-1992, Russian pioneer in science fiction writing</i>'

quotes[15]='But we breathe, we change! We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom! Our ideals! <p &nbsp;</p><i>Samuel Beckett 1906-1989, Irish playwright and novelist</i>'

quotes[16]='Its been a long time coming. But I know a change is gonna come. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sam Cooke 1931-1964, American musician</i>'

quotes[17]='This feeling, finally, that we may change things - this is at the centre of everything we are. Lose that... lose everything. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sir David Hare 1947-, British playwright and author of many satires</i>'

quotes[18]='Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Octavio Paz 1914-1998, Mexican poet and essayist</i>'

quotes[19]='Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. <p &nbsp;</p><i>William Somerset Maugham 1874-1965, British novelist and short story writer in Of Human Bondage</i>'

quotes[20]='Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Coco Chanel 1883-1971, French couturiere and perfume manufacturer</i>'

quotes[21]='Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Charles Dickens 1812-1870, English novelist</i>'

quotes[22]='The variety of all things forms a pleasure. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Euripides 485BC-407BC, Greek writer of tragedies</i>'

quotes[23]='The real problem is what to do with problem solvers after the problem is solved. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Gay Talese 1932-, American (Italian-born) journalist</i>'

quotes[24]='When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Lucius Cary 1610–1643, 2d Viscount Falkland, English statesman and literary figure. </i>'

quotes[25]='Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Peter F. Drucker 1909-, American management guru </i>'

quotes[26]='I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Georg C. Lichtenberg 1742-1799, German experimental physicist, most celebrated for the casual notes and aphorisms that he collected in what he called his Waste Books</i>'

quotes[27]='Tell me and I`ll forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I`ll understand. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Chinese Proverb </i>'

quotes[28]='Be not afreaid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Chinese Proverb </i>'

quotes[29]='Management must guide the forces of change. <p &nbsp;</p><i>John W. Teets, former chairman, Greyhound </i>'

quotes[30]='Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. <p &nbsp;</p><i> Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German philosopher and notorious pessimist </i>'

quotes[31]='"Bury me on my face," said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, "Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down." <p &nbsp;</p><i>Diogenes 412BC-323BC, Greek philosopher </i>'

quotes[32]='All things are in a state of flux. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Heraclites 540BC–480BC, Greek Philosopher </i>'

quotes[33]='Everything flows; nothing remains. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Heraclites 540BC–480BC, Greek Philosopher </i>'

quotes[34]='Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, English lexicographer</i>'

quotes[35]='Men like the opinions to which they have become accustomed from youth; this prevents them from finding the truth, for they cling to the opinions of habit. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Moses Maimonides 1135-1204, Egyptian physician and philosopher </i>'

quotes[36]='Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Edmund Burke 1729-1797, Irish politician and writer </i>'

quotes[37]='No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Epictetus c. 60-120, Roman philosopher </i>'

quotes[38]='Slow and steady wins the race. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Aesop c. 620-560 BC, Greek writer </i>'

quotes[39]='Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Pablo Picasso 1881-1973, Spanish painter </i>'

quotes[40]='Kaizen is like a hotbed that nurtures small and ongoing changes, while innovation is like magma that appears in abrupt eruptions from time to time. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Masaaki Imai, Japanese change and quality management guru </i>'

quotes[41]='This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Joseph Schumpeter 1883-1950, social scientist and teacher, in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy </i>'

quotes[42]='If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Albert Einstein 1879-1955; German-born American theoretical physicist </i>'

quotes[43]='Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Sun Tzu c. 490 BC, Chinese military strategist </i>'

quotes[44]='A mechanistic management system is appropriate to stable conditions. (...) The organic form is appropriate to changing conditions, which give rise constantly to fresh problems and unforseen requirements for action which cannot be broken down or distributed automatically arising from the functional roles defined within a hierarchic structure. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Tom Burns and G.M. Stalker, sociologists, in The Management of Innovation (1961) </i>'

quotes[45]='The fact that organizations have built-in protective devices to maintain stability and that they are notoriously difficult to change in the direction of some reformer`s desires should not obscure the realities of the dynamic interrelationships of any social structure with its social and natural environment. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Daniel Katz and Robert L. Kahn in The Social Psychology of Organizations (1966) </i>'

quotes[46]='The more things change, the more they stay the same. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Alphonse Karr 1808-1890, French writer </i>'

quotes[47]='Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strenght. What is malleable is always superior to that what is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Lao Tzu c.604BC-531BC, Chinese philosopher, founder of Taoism </i>'

quotes[48]='A fanatic is one who can`t change his mind and won`t change the subject. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Winston Churchill 1874-1965, British prime minister and writer </i>'

quotes[49]='Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we change a blunt lancet that we have used long enough. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Claude Bernard 1813-1878, French physiologist </i>'

quotes[50]='You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Plato 428 BC-347 BC, ancient Greek philosopher, Laws, 888 </i>'

quotes[51]='Future shock...the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting hem to too much change in too short a time. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Alvin Toffler, 1928-, American writer and futurist </i>'

quotes[52]='The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Marcus Aurelius Antonius 121-180, Roman Emperor from 211 to 217 </i>'

quotes[53]='God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. <p &nbsp;</p><i>Reinhold Niebuhr 1892-1971, Protestant theologian </i>'

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