Quotes About Change

90 percent of heart patients who are told to change their lifestyle habits or die, choose death over change.

You can move a leader's feet by force, or you can move their hearts by influence and inspiration.

It's fine to enjoy familiar surroundings and desire familiar comforts—as long as we understand there may be times when we can't have them. Sometimes we're called to larger duties—like a soldier leaving home to go off to war. Second thoughts at such times are natural—but the Bible tells us, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3 NKJV).

One thing that you can always be sure of when it comes to networks: they're always changing

Using a slightly different procedure, other research has suggested that, when the counterattitudinal actions do not cause aversive consequences, attitude change does not occur

Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

when they put up the sea barriers the mayor's office started slapping protection orders on everything and turned Manhattan into a theme-park version of itself: no life, no change, no danger, just heritage.

Lydia's never met a working translator as old as this before: usually they burn out, go into teaching, change careers (e.g., become drug dealers) or just retire.

Benny: Goodbye Irving Brax: But not for good I hope Benny. In another life where the story takes a different path… Benny: Yes, a better one...

But, in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

We have to become better people by fundamentally transforming the conditions of our living together. This will require setting aside our comforting illusions.

John Dewey, the American philosopher, understood this: The very idea of democracy, the meaning of democracy, must be continually explored afresh; it has to be constantly discovered and rediscovered, remade and reorganized; while the political and economic and social institutions in which it is embodied have to be remade and reorganized to meet the changes that are going on in the development of new needs on the part of human beings and new resources for satisfying these needs.

On one level, it is the interregnum surrounded by the ghosts of the dying moment, and on another, the moment that is desperately trying to be born with a lie wrapped around its neck.

In so many ways, these last two sentences

Nell Painter spoke to the heart of the matter. "It's all about the questions we ask," she said. "The questions have changed. I mean, the questions always change. That's why we keep writing history.

in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

This is the undertow of black politics: traumatic memories that cling to our choices like ghosts who can't find peace as white America refuses to change again. Like Baldwin, we have to bear witness to it all and tell the story of how we got here—and then, just maybe, we can muster the resolve and will to push this damn rock up the hill again.

only [people] could trust that "thing," they would be less afraid of being touched, less afraid of loving each other, less afraid of being changed by each other. Life would be different. Our children would not be the victims that they are now, we would not be either. But for some reason love is the most frightful thing; something that the human being is most in need of and dreads most.

Baldwin wrote in another after times—that of the collapse of the civil rights movement, bearing witness to a time when many thought the nation was poised to change, only to have darkness descend and change arrested.

I remembered working on my last book and traveling to Ferguson, Missouri, and to Raleigh, North Carolina, to bear witness to what happened there. In those spaces, I saw and heard people saying no. In their pursuit of a more just America, they made a choice to not adjust themselves to the status quo and to put their bodies on the line for a different America where black people and those on the margins of this society might flourish.

this black queer man represented a different kind of radicalism than the masculinist politics of black male preachers, they maintained).

On 'Van Halen ' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning ' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.