Quotes About Change

Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.

You must change the people you are speaking to so that you appear, to yourself, to be still alive.

y la paz se convirtió en algo desagradable para unos hombres a quienes la guerra había satisfecho durante largo tiempo las necesidades vitales.

Should further discoveries bear this out, the robust australopithecines will stand as a rare example of parallel evolution, in which members of two descendant lineages of A. afarensis independently evolved similar adaptations, presumably in response to environmental change.

In the last 20,000 years, our brains have shrunk 10 percent—from 1,500 cubic centimeters down to 1,350—a loss of the volume of a tennis ball.

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves.

But other things had added to Jerry's present weird mood, his new view of himself as someone who'd suddenly found he was in a six-foot-deep rut when all along he'd thought of himself as sailing.

There are no Territories to light out for, not in this century. It was no longer easy to become the new you. New or old, you were already you.

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.

After three weeks of constant bobbing and weaving, constant trouble, constant worry, my final week in Guerrera would be calm and serene.

You wanna know what's happening to New York?" he asked. "I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look at the covers of science fiction magazines from the thirties. That's what's happening to New York.

What should we change in our product development process? Eliminate waste? Increase quality? Raise efficiency? Shorten cycle time? The key to answering this question is to step back to a more basic question: Why do we want to change the product development process? The answer: to increase profits.

Let's pray that God does select a very progressive man to the office of Peter because you are all going to be so shocked and confused when nothing changes! God could elect a very sinful, deaf, dumb, and blind idiot to the office of the papacy, and still nothing in matters of faith and morals will change!

I watch a white landscape that turns pale green, dark green, yellow and red, brown under bare branches, until snow falls again.

In newspapers and magazines I read about what's happening. Apparently Facebook exists to extinguish friendship. E-mail and texting destroy the post office. eBay replaces garage sales. Amazon eviscerates bookstores. Technology speeds, then doubles its speed, then doubles it again. Art takes naps.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

This poem is not addressed to you.]" This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will. Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

The hoplites drove the tyrants from power and created broad oligarchies in their place.

Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.