Quotes About Change

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

being right all the time acquires a huge importance in education, and there is this terror of being wrong. The ego is so tied to being right that later on in life you are reluctant to accept that you are ever wrong, because you are defending not the idea but your self-esteem. (...) this terror of being wrong means that people have enormous difficulties in changing ideas.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

I am only one, butt still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Edward Everett Hale "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

And one way the Aristotelian philosopher of nature might defend the reality of change against his rivals is precisely by appealing to the nature of the material reality that both sides affirm, and arguing that it entails the possibility of change.

philosophy of nature, albeit a rival to the Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Hence to characterize the very field of the philosophy of nature as essentially concerned with change might seem to beg the question in favor of the Aristotelian approach. Better to characterize it instead in terms of what both sides agree upon, viz. the existence of the empirical and material world.

Change just is the realization of some potentiality; or as Aquinas puts it, "motion is the actuality of a being in potency

Fashions change, but style is forever.

Progress is our most important product.

See what brown can do for you.

First you feel like dying. Then you feel reborn.

There was a young man from Trinity, Who solved the square root of infinity. While counting the digits, He was seized by the fidgets, Dropped science, and took up divinity.

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.

Carriages without horses shall go,And accidents fill the world with woe.

When the horse is dead, get off.

Fire in the lake: the image of Revolution.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

There's a shadow hanging over me,Oh yesterday came suddenly.

In the 1960s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

What boots up must come down.