Quotes About Change

Laws convey the myth of enforced change. A bright new future will come because of this law or that one. Laws enforce the future.

this was a living moment, a time to discover regularities within perpetual change, an instant in which to feel that long movement from their Terranic past, all of it encapsulated in her memories.

Nimic nu-i pierdut pentru totdeauna. Totul se întoarce dup? o vreme, dar s-ar putea s? nu recunoÅŸti forma schimbat? care revine.

Multe erori grave de guvernare sunt pricinuite de teama de a realiza schimb?ri interne radicale, chiar È™i când necesitatea lor este clar perceput?.

The expectations which history creates for one generation are often shattered in the next generation.

I'm at the fulcrum

Con el punto de apoyo adecuado es posible hasta mover el mundo

A time of love and a time of grief.

Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.

The surest sign that an aristocracy exists is the discovery of barriers against change, curtains of iron or steel or stone or of any substance which excludes the new, the different.

Their voices had that end of the workday lift—a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfilled, yet colored by the knowledge that life would not change for them.

A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.

It is naive to expect any bureaucracy to take brilliant innovations and put them to good use. Bureaucracies ask different questions.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept? —A GUIDE TO TRIAL AND ERROR IN GOVERNMENT, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

For all of those years since birth they had been as one person. But their plan demanded now that they undergo a metamorphosis, going their separate ways into uniqueness where the sharing of daily experiences would never again unite them as they once had been united.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless muttering of old women. He remembered open waters and waves - days of grass instead of sand - dazed summers that had whipped past him like windstorms leaves. [...] I'm getting old, he thought. I've felt the cold hand of my mortality. And in what ? An old woman's greed.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.

In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text

They demonstrate how motives of bureaucracy are directly opposed to the need for adapting to change. Adaptability is a prime requirement for life to survive.

He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

It was one of those abrupt thought changes which so confounded Stilgar. He found himself temporarily dumb. Such words contained meaning, but their intent eluded him.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity....The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.