Quotes About Change

He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?

Today, so long, so strange, so bitter; will soon be some forgotten yesterday.

How horrible it is that people have to grow up!

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

El pasado es un país extranjero: allí las cosas se hacen de manera distinta.

Well, they don't talk to me very much, I said. You see, they're all grown up, and they have grown-up games like whist and lawn tennis, and talking, you know, just for the sake of talking (this seemed a strange pursuit to me).

The future was to be a laborious business.

I was no longer satisfied with the small change of experience, which had hitherto contented me. I wanted to deal in larger sums.

If skirts get any shorter, said the flapper with a sob, I'll have two more cheeks to powder and a lot more hair to bob!

Elizabeth saw that in politics, problems are rarely solved; they are only replaced by other, more pressing ones.

Why is our life so cruel and dark That men no longer speak to friend? Why does evil so clearly mark The monstrous government of men? Compare what is with what is past And see how fraud and sorrow stand, While law and justice fade so fast That I know no longer where I am.

My mother had to leave many traditions behind and the more time passed, the more they mattered to her.

Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration.

There is only one realm in which characters defy natural laws and remain the same—the realm of bad writing. And its the fixed nature of the characters which makes the writing bad. If a character in a short story, novel, or play occupies the same position at the end as the one he did at the beginning, that story, novel, or play is bad.

Four months later, their mother was living with Buddhist nuns and Dagou had bulked up by thirty pounds.

What losing does is, it restores the perspective.

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.

Fired by an emotional faith in spontaneity, the common-sense attitude toward change was discarded in favor of a mystical readiness to accept the social consequences of economic improvement

There is the capitalist approach (make it bigger), the technocratic one (make it better), the 'revolutionary' solution (portray the problem as an example of an exploitative system) and the pre-industrial romantic fallacy (don't use it; maybe it will go away by itself). We propose a fifth alternative response: Let's invent a different answer."28

Sometimes there's no way around it—you have to let people go. But again you do it as constructively as you can.

Without execution, the breakthrough thinking breaks down, learning adds no value, people don't meet their stretch goals, and the revolution stops dead in its tracks. What you get is change for the worse, because failure drains the energy from your organization. Repeated failure destroys it.

every personal or behavioral problem one might wish to change (for example, bad temper, perverted sexual desires, depression, anxiety, overeating) results ultimately from violations of the command to love.

Confession designed to restore lost blessings is a management technique, it is not repentance.

Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one's approach to meeting personal needs will plow headlong into resistance.