Change Quotes
The status quo is persistent and resistant. It exists because everyone wants it to. Everyone believes that what they’ve got is probably better than the risk and fear that come with change.
It is generally believed that nearly 40 percent of your first impression will be set from the tone of your voice. Your vocal thermometer can be more impactful than the actual words you use.
Your tone of voice can be conveyed in both the words you speak and in the words you write.
Your tone can represent the character of your business, the strength of your resolve, and express the depths of your convictions.
Align your voice value with the tone, pace, and pitch of your listeners will help you connect on all levels.
When your speaking style is clear, confident, and concise, your listeners will perceive you as such.
Developing your eloquence and enunciation will reduce the likelihood of misinterpretation and misunderstanding, making your delivery more powerful.
By speaking in a competent and confident way, your message will sound more relevant and appropriate, reflecting you in a favorable light.
Variety is the Spice of Life. Voices come in all shapes, tones, and sizes. Some are compelling and effective, while others are grating and agitating.
Think of the times that others remembered your name and used it kindly. How did it make you feel? When you use someone’s name it makes him or her feel recognized, appreciated, and special.
What determines whether the usage is acceptable or inappropriate? If you want to make a great first impression with positive impact, it is essential that you know there is a difference.
Every time you speak, you are using your voice to connect with others, whether it is in-person, on the phone, or in a recorded message.
Is your voice value delivering the image you wish to convey? Is your voice coming across as smart, friendly, and positive or ignorant, rude, and negative?
The way you deliver the words you say becomes your “vocal image. This "vocal image" can make or break your first impressions, impact your communication, and determine how people respond to you.
What can you do to ensure that your voice value translates into impression value?
You want some sweet and lovely things, Tessa, but be careful. Other people can't always give you what you want.
Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.
Change is inevitable. If you don’t seek it out, it will seek you out.
Strategic coherence is more important than strategic perfection.
Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.
Green light, STOP - if you want to see where you are taking the most risk, look where you are making the most money.
Yesterday’s decision-making strategies are ill-equipped to deal with petabyte information flows.
Catastrophe is change on the fast track. Disaster is a laboratory for adaptability.
You need to experience fear in order to be capable of Universal love. If you can’t acknowledge fear, you can’t change it.
Once you become aware of knowledge and you are conscious of knowledge, there is no going back to the previous conscious state of mind.
Influence is independent of numbers. Influencing positive change in one person is still influence.
With regard to navigating relationship's highways and bi-ways - avoid changing lanes without first giving a signal.
I fail to find even one "Netaji" among the several thousand "Netas" of today. India needs our sacrifices once more and my entire life is and will remain dedicated to the service of my country.
Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.
Life is all about change. If it were static, think about how boring it would be. You can't be afraid of it, and you can't worry that you'll mess things up.
Being able to say, “No, ” is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.
Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.
Our minds have a great capacity for deception. This does not mean we are necessarily dishonest but if we are not careful, when our brains do not have answers, our minds will create them.
