“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.” TryingStillsStoriesChangeCompanyPrinciplesFourConstantForgottenDecadesTalesProvokingVirginsEmbeddedRevisionPositive ChangeSuccess StoriesBusiness Change Author:Richard Branson
“People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.” PeopleFirstsSaidImportantIdeasChangeInterestingFourStageDevelopmentWasteRevolutionaryMy TimeNonsenseGood IdeasWasting My TimeDon't Waste My Time Author:Arthur C. Clarke
“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.” IfsKnowsNeedsYearsFactsWould BeChangeFourChangedTheoryBecomingHundredConstantRadicalNow And ThenBecoming MoreReconstructionScientific TheoryGravitation Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz
“Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.” LongTwoEnoughAgeSuccessTimeThreeHopeWishChangeRealizingCourageFourSucceed Author:Earl Nightingale
“It is often said that we are just a moment in time! In that case, here is the best challenge for man: To change this! To be two moments in time; three moments in time; four moments in time; to be in the whole of the time!” MenSaidTwoWholeMomentsThreeChangeChallengesCasesFourMoments In Time Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.” PeopleMindLittlesKidsWaitingChangeActingTalkingCreativeFourMinutesMonthsSixCoachesQuittingLeagueCoachingSix MonthsJuiceGreat TimesLittle LeagueTalking About MeCreative Juices Author:James Caan