Quotes About Change

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Jossi had been slow in agreeing with Ben Yehuda and the others. Hebrew had to be revived. If the desire for national identity was great enough a dead language could be brought back. But Sarah was set in her ways. Yiddish was what she spoke and what her mother had spoken. She had no intention of becoming a scholar so late in life.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

The white race is in its decline. We started downhill in 1492 when Columbus discovered syphilis.

Robert Frost wrote in 1914, "Why abandon a belief / Merely because it ceases to be true.

a thousand years without a bath.

along with our responses to them, determine

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die

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As our lives have been flooded with novelty and change, they have become more hectic than ever before, at both home and work. We are barraged by a constant stream of information, and thanks to all of our screens and devices, we are in ceaseless contact with dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of other people, rarely (if ever) enjoying any complete downtime.

A vivid example of such a change in social equilibrium occurred in the months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when travelers, afraid to take airplanes, suddenly switched to cars. Their fear translated into about 1,000 more highway fatalities in that period than in the same period the year before—hidden casualties of the September 11 attack.24

in the recent past, as the pace of change has quickened, the calculus governing the benefits of embracing novelty has been dramatically altered. Today's society bestows rewards as never before upon those who are comfortable with change, and it may punish those who are not, for what used to be the safe terrain of stability is now often a dangerous minefield of stagnation.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. —Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993

A vivid example of such a change in social equilibrium occurred in the months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when travelers, afraid to take airplanes, suddenly switched to cars. Their fear translated into about 1,000 more highway fatalities in that period than in the same period the year before—hidden casualties of the September 11 attack.24 But

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

In time and with water, everything changes

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes: so with time present.