A Quote by James Cook

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

James Cook

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Bureaucracy Change Nature Progress

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James Cook
British - Explorer
October 27, 1728 - February 14, 1779

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Flannery O'Connor

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely.[Pournelle's law of Bureaucracy]

Jerry Pournelle

There is no justice in bureaucracy for the individual, for bureaucracy caters only to itself. One cannot practice the same bureaucracy as one is fighting against.

Leon Trotsky

Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change.

W. Edwards Deming

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

Bertrand Russell

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

Henry Steele Commager

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Irving Stone

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

Ariel Durant

I think the most common meme is that it's too difficult to change. It's too risky to change. My nature doesn't allow me to change. When you're thinking that, you're not understanding what your nature is. All of us come from this place of well-being, love, and kindness. But we've taken on these other things, and we think that they're our nature. Our nature really is to be like God.

Wayne Dyer

We have been making changes continuously. You cannot expect everything to be perfect the minute it is made. Things change; they are dynamic as you progress. The requirements change. Demands change. So you change with that.

Rajiv Gandhi

Nature is a good teacher; he who can read the nature well, he can learn sagacious things belong to life from it. Once you stepped in the nature, your philosophical education starts. A black vulture teaches you many things; a bear teaches you many things; a bird making its nest and a rosehip which resists being frozen, they teach you many things!