Quotes About Change

What we resist persists.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

We have to get past this persistent negativity. The negativity has held Rhode Island back for a long time.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

No one person can change the world, but one and one and one add up.

Never doubt that one person can make a difference.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

People come and go in your life. It is up to you choose how you want to associate with that person. It is up to you to learn and imbibe things from such a person.

If you change a woman's look, you change her persona.

When I first started, I had a mullet, and I was trying to play a hillbilly persona. While it was fun, it wasn't me.

The great leap was one from adaptation to, to control over the natural environment.

Some time, when man shall have made all things alike, the earth will be a dull, tedious dwelling-place, and we shall have even to give up travelling and seeking for a change which can no longer be found.

To deprive the bourgeoisie not of its art but of its concept of art, this is the precondition of a revolutionary argument.

On voudrait qu'un trait d'union existe, aussi infime soit-il, entre avant et après.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

When our ideas on any subject, material, intellectual, or social, undergo a thorough change in consequence of new observations, I call that movement of the mind revolution. If the ideas are simply extended or modified, there is only progress. Thus the system of Ptolemy was a step in astronomical progress, that of Copernicus was a revolution.

La démagogie est l'hypocrisie du progrès.

Nothing persists, said the ancient sages: everything changes, everything flows, everything becomes; consequently, everything remains and everything is connected; by further consequence the entire universe is opposition, balance, equilibrium. There is nothing, neither outside nor inside, apart from that eternal dance; and the rhythm that commands it,

You don't have to settle for what you are at this moment. You can work to make a difference. --Chex

Had supposed India was essentially unfathomable: it was too fast, too swiftly changing to yield to any categorisation. In Varanasi, however, I found a city whose spirit seemed to denote the whole.

In the 1980s reindeer meat still made a substantial profit. Every other activity, even when the real cost of anything at all was masked by the Soviet tangle of cross-subsidies and phantom accounting, ran at a severe loss. Though this was to change beyond all recognition in the 1990s, reindeer herders in the 1980s were fairly well paid and well provisioned, and their exotic holidays were provided free.