Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination

Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.

Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.