Quotes About Change

What if I hadn't sold my guitar to Eric? Maybe it would all have turned out differently, and the Les Paul would have been merely another interesting historical clunker rather than a cultural icon.

Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

They say that time change things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

Sometimes the little times you don't think are anything while they're happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

The great Powers of the world today as they look at the armaments they have built up, find themselves hopelessly frustrated. If that be the case, what is the use of speaking about first-class, second-class and third-class Powers? That is surely the wrong language to use. It does not comply with contemporary reality. What we have to seek is new ways of being great, new modes of pioneering, new fashions of thought, new means of inspiring and igniting the minds of mankind. We can do so.

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

You can get rich or famous by doing the same thing.

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

La memoria es frágil y eso es una bendición, el tiempo va perdiendo todo en sus espejos.

Habrá palabras nuevas para la nueva historia y es preciso encontrarlas antes de que sea tarde.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

Spiritual tradition is comfortable with paradox, whereas many political movements are not. But all truth is paradox. What it is to live in a space of transformative change is to engender greater and greater comfort with paradox. So that paradox becomes something that we not only acknowledge but also live more truthfully. We discover that Truth is relationship. And relationship is.

Turning death and destruction to new ways of seeing and being is the best offering we can make to those we have lost.

The Tiberian system became more and more dominant until it completely ousted its Palestino-Tiberian counterpart around the middle of the fourteenth century.

Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.