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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. -- J. Paul Getty
Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results. -- William C. Oates
It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change. -- Sheila Ballantyne
In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action. -- Brian Tracy
In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities. -- Brian Tracy
Private-equity and hedge-fund guys typically come into a situation of mediocrity, where rapid change may result in a profit. -- Austin Ligon
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Al Bernstein
Bankers regard research as most dangerous a thing that makes banking hazardous due to the rapid changes it brings about in industry. -- Charles Kettering
There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions . -- Peter Drucker
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability. -- Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
As our eyes age, they have a tougher and tougher time adjusting to rapid changes in lighting, and we need to be aware of this. -- Robert James Thomson
The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast. -- Peter Drucker
We are at a critical point where rapid change is forcing us to look not just to new ways of solving problems but to new problems to solve. -- Tim Brown
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order. -- Arthur Levitt
Crowding, rapid change and the breakdown of communities have been widely recognized as sources of social problems. But we do not believe they are enough to account for the extent of the problems that are seen today. -- Theodore Kaczynski
It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us. -- Eric Hoffer
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other. -- B. F. Skinner
Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us. -- Jennifer James
We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide. -- Nathan M. Pusey
It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid change. But much of this change is no more than an attempt to refine the existent machinery, making it ever more efficient in pursuit of obsolete goals. -- Alvin Toffler
A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. -- Earl Warren
One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. -- Judith Martin
Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products. -- Marsha Blackburn
Iâ??m extremely optimistic about rapid transformation and change of things in Africa in general. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind. -- Larry Brilliant
Raising a child is a time of RAPID CHANGE! From the ages of 0 to 19, a PARENT can age over 30 years! -- Tanya Masse
Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. -- Ron Suskind
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it. -- Martha Beck
One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order. -- Arthur Levitt
To make sense of a world in which rapid change and globalisation create genuine insecurity, we need benchmarks by which we can judge our actions and their long-term impact. -- David Blunkett
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change. -- Simon Travaglia

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