Quotes About Change

It's extremely difficult—and socially risky—to question an established model that many people believe and to start building a new model from scratch.

No longer are you Sekhmet the Slayer: you are Hathor the Lady of Love. Yet your power over mankind shall be greater even than it was – for the passion of love shall be stronger than the passion of hate, and all shall know love, and all shall be your victims.

In teams where there are significant power differences, when team members with less power are better able to speak up, the team has more success implementing new technology changes.

Reading was for him a narrowing, not a widening experience He saw himself as a teacher and reformer born to change the world.

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Sans doute, nos vacances sont perdues, mais l'avenir est intact.

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Good-bye and hello, as always.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

She knows she has treated Jerry cruelly at times, but she's lost respect for him because, as she states, "He's always there and just keeps coming back. What is the matter with him?" She's just met someone more intriguing at her Twelve Step meeting, and after all, Jerry will be much happier without her.

New beginnings don't start with a flourish of music and a round of applause. They start in small increments. Little by little, you notice yourself feeling slightly happier and sleeping a bit better; a glimmer of optimism begins to return. Step by step, your new life begins.

Unfortunately, however, people don't change by learning more information. The only way to break a bonding pattern is through honest vulnerability.

a mouth which does not confess disproves the existence of a heart that believes. The soul cannot be God's and the life not God's at the same time. The soul cannot be recreated and the life remain unchanged.

The soul cannot be recreated and the life remain unchanged.

The bourgeoisie hides the fact that it is the bourgeoisie and thereby produces myth; revolution announces itself openly as revolution and thereby abolishes myth.

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Nostalgia is often a mask for rage. The intensity with which we yearn for a lost world is frequently proportionate to the discomfort we feel in our own.