Quotes About Change

What I remember about coming to L.A. is that suddenly work was as big a presence in my life as my life itself.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

If you're not changing, you're not growing; you're not being present. Change is essential.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

Glossier is really for anyone who wants to embrace the present and live in the now. It's about embracing constant change and who you are at any given moment, and that's often someone who's imperfect - and that's cool.

To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

Civilization in its present form hasn't got long.

When I look at cities now, I don't see them in the present. This is the decaying infrastructure of our existing cities. Years from now, none of this is going to be here. New cities are going to rise.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

No matter the amount of negativity you're presented with, five minutes from now could be your best moment.