Quotes About Change

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation.

If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary. —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity." Odrade explaining. "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

A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time for love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace.

The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity.

There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?

A kind of Heisenberg indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure of energy that revealed what he saw, changed what he saw.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB

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Abandonem a certeza! Esse é o comando mais profundo que a vida nos dá. É o que constitui a vida, no final das contas.

Cât de tentant este s? ridic?m ziduri înalte È™i s? împiedic?m p?trunderea oric?rei schimb?ri. S? putrezim aici, în confortul mulÈ›umirii de sine.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.' That seemed to satisfy her.

Una semilla impulsada por el viento puede ser el sauce del mañana

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They re-create the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. —LETO II, HIS VOICE, FROM DAR-ES-BALAT

Given enough time for the generations to evolve, the predator produces particular survival adaptations in its prey which, through the circular operation of feedback, produce changes in the predator which again change the prey—etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. . . . Many powerful forces do the same thing. You can count religions among such forces.

Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.

all things/cells/beings are impermanent . . . strive for flow-permanence within. . .

Soltanto gli sciocchi preferiscono il passato!

Mediante tu creencia en las singularidades granulares, deniegas todo movimiento… evolutivo o degenerativo. La creencia fija un universo granular y hace que ese universo persista. No puede permitirse que cambie nada porque de esa forma nuestro universo no moviente se desvanece. Pero se mueve por sí mismo cuando tú no te mueves. Evoluciona más allá de ti y ya no te resulta accesible.

The future is a thing to be shaped

Life was always a reaction to pressures.

Povjesni?ari imaju veliku mo?, a neki od njih to i znaju. Oni ponovno stvaraju prošlost, mijenjaju?i je kako bi odgovarala njihovim vlastitim tuma?enjima. Pa tako mijenjaju i budu?nost.

He was a creature who had developed firmly into one pattern. He'd destroy himself before changing into the opposite of that pattern.

Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?