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A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.
I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.
People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.
There is nothing so stable as change.
You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.

Writings and Drawings
How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

The Story of a New Name
Change is inevitable, but it is in us to control its content and directions.

Speech (1967)
Change means avoiding the predictable and known ways of doing things which we learn to adjust to.

Managing to Survive (1993)
You can't permit a honeymoon of small changes over a year or two. A long series of small changes just prolongs the pain.

Harvard Business Review (1991)
The most constant thing is change.
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