A Quote by Orrin Woodward

Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.

Orrin Woodward

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Change Given Growth However Optional

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Orrin Woodward
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Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

John C. Maxwell

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

Sherwood Smith

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

Herbert Hoover

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

R. A. Salvatore

Survival is optional. No one has to change.

W. Edwards Deming

The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.

Clay Shirky

Change is inevitable. Progress is optional .

Tony Robbins

I'm a scientist at heart, so I know how important the truth is. However inconvenient, however unattractive, however embarrassing, however shocking, the truth is the truth, and wanting it not to be true doesn't change things.

Ricky Gervais

There is job growth in renewables, there is job growth in energy efficiency and there is job growth in developing innovative industries and technologies to successfully meet the challenge of climate change.

Peter Garrett

Adversity and challenges are life’s way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.

Willie Jolley

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

C. S. Lewis

Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.