A change is as good as a rest.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.

Or you don't.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

It wasn't bad, ... I've got all winter to rest up. I'm not really concerned with pitch counts at this point. You just do whatever it takes to win.

It's not so much that Sears and Kmart did anything wrong, it's just that they didn't change while the rest of the industry was changing around them.