Change Quotes

The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in n...

From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will nev...

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conferen...

Obama can't change his cool disposition, though it would be nice if he lost the vaguely grudging air...

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

I think people are sick of trends changing every six months - not because we're tired of them, but j...

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmabl...

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that'...

If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that.But, if...

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short...

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a perso...

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't ...

Now that I have a thousand albums in my car all the time, I listen to more music. I was too lazy; I ...

Watching her, I remembered a girl I'd known in school, a grind, Mildred Grossman. Mildred: with her ...

The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete ove...

Books, you know, they’re not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims ...

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps chan...

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human powe...

A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is ...

You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it wa...

And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. O...

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to ...

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a...

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it wo...

Intelligence is the handmaiden of flexibility and change.

The person you became with her is worth being.

... if they are persistent enough, even tiny drops of water, over time, can change the rock forever....

It will be difficult to break the habits of thinking Abnegation instilled in me, like tugging a sing...

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents...

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer st...

When I started off, I believed that the true determinant of how great I was was through my lifestyle...

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is...

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the...

We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the mo...

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re ...

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes.

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large I contain multitudes).

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes a...

And how will this come to pass?' He paused and lowered his voice. ' In the same way all change comes...

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs ...

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. ...

Time was this place didn’t make sense and I could live with it. Either it’s changed, or I have.

Revolutions are not made they come.

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travell...

There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveli...

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd ...

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -- perhaps as m...

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less ...

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest ...

I don't think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern so...

I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than m...

To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it ...

All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the ...

Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communica...

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better....LEWIS: That's not...

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outliv...

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they h...

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressur...

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

If you want to make enemies try to change something.

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independe...

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe whi...

Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slande...

Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his ...

I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in th...

He was the average mortal. It troubled him to get used to the world one way and then suddenly have i...

If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both a...

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to ...

Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol...

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a no...

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human...

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoi...

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they s...

Change is the only evidence of life.

The moment of change is the only poem.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles one would hardly see anybody.

The only clue to what is in people's minds is in their behavior. If a man behaves strangely, oddly, ...

I am pointing to you that under these conditions--mental strain, physical malaise--it is highly prob...