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"CHANGE(S) / CHANGING / TO CHANGE"

Origin of the Word:

c. 1200, "act or fact of changing," from Anglo-French chaunge, Old French change "exchange, recompense, reciprocation," from changier "to alter; exchange; to switch" (see change (v.)). Related: changes.

Meaning "a different situation, variety, novelty" is from 1680s (as in for a change, 1690s). Meaning "something substituted for something else" is from 1590s. Meaning "place where merchants meet to do business" is from c. 1400. Meaning "the passing from life to death" is biblical (161os).

The financial sense of "balance of money returned after deducting the price of a purchase from the sum paid" is first recorded 1620s; hence to make change (by 1865). Bell-ringing sense is from 1610s, "any sequence other than the diatonic." Hence the figurative phrase ring changes "repeat in every possible order" (1610s). Figurative phrase change of heart is from 1828. In reference to women, change of life "final cessation of menstruation" is recorded from 1834.

Definition:

An act or process through which something becomes different.

the substitution of one thing for another.
an alteration or modification.
a new or refreshingly different experience.
a clean garment or garments as a replacement for something one is

Other useful definitions by Creative, and Game-Changing Thinkers:

Rumi

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

By Seth Godin

"Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”

“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.”

“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.”

“Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.”

“Little changes cost you. Big changes benefit you by changing the game, but only if you go first.”

“No, everything is not going to be okay. It never is. It isn’t okay now. Change, by definition, changes things”

“Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.”

Time Ferriss

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

Stephan R. Covey

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

Mahatma Gandhi

"People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value."