10 unexpectedly encouraging insights about change
Which of these did you need to hear today?
Do you have a favourite quote, directly or tangentially related to change? I’d love to hear it. Will you hit reply and let me know? Meantime, here are some new ones I’ve come across in the last few months.
“The old is dead, and I don’t know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there’s something that can come out of experimentation.”
~ David Lynch
“Do things fast. Things don’t actually take much time (as measured by a stopwatch); resistance/procrastination does. “‘Slow is fake.’” If no urgency exists, impose some.”~ Nabeel Qureshi
“The desire to master a craft, to read slowly, to be embedded in a genuine community, to understand your place in some tradition larger than yourself: these desires are effortful to acquire and impossible to fully gratify.”~ Joan Westenberg
“Almost everything will start working again if you unplug it for a few minutes… including you.”~ Anne Lammott
“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”~ W. Edwards Deming
“One of the most realistic parts of The Lord of the Rings is that almost no one wanted to get involved, until it was very nearly too late.”~ Ricki Yasha Tarr
“What if acts of service that we can feel but can’t always measure expand our capacity for connection and trust?”~ MacKenzie Scott
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.”~ Gall’s Law
“If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then next day you probably do much the same again — if to do that is human, if that’s what it takes, then I am a human being after all.”~ Ursula K. Le Guin
“1. Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
2. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small.
3. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs.
4. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”~ Charles Beard’s four lessons of history
