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Change

We trained hard... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising... and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Petronius (died AD 65)

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine the Great

When the winds of change blow, some people build windmills, others build walls.
Anonymous

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr [The Alcoholic's Prayer]

Things do not change; we change.
Henry Thoreau (1817–1862)

Uncertainty allows for the possibility of improving the future in a way that certainty doesn't.
Mike Wills (1946–) [Managing the Training Process]

One cannot step into the same river twice.
Herakleitos

May you live in interesting times.
Ancient Chinese Curse




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