Quotes About Change

It is easier to change directions in a crisis, but this was not a crisis.

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

This example highlights two aspects of choice that the standard model of indifference curves does not predict. First, tastes are not fixed; they vary with the reference point. Second, the disadvantages of a change loom larger than its advantages, inducing a bias that favors the status quo.

People in their 30s know where the world is going because they're going to do it. I'm in my 80s so I have no idea.

Links, sagte Humboldt. Wieso links, fragte Bonpland. Also rechts, sagte Humboldt. Aber warum rechts? Zum Teufel, rief Humboldt, jetzt werde es ihm zu blöd.

Lo sapeva già, ora lui le avrebbe detto che in futuro non ci sarebbe stata alcuna differenza fra quelle regioni, che presto nessuno avrebbe mosso un dito per quello per cui adesso si sacrificava la vita. Ma tutto ciò cosa cambiava? Una certa confidenza con il futuro è una forma di codardia. Credeva davvero che la gente sarebbe diventata più intelligente? Un po' sì, rispose Gauss. Per forza di cose. Ma viviamo in questo momento! Purtroppo, disse.

Wie leicht alles wurde, wenn man aufbrach.

He looks around, he suddenly recognizes in his colleagues what others see in him: tax officials. And he is one of them. How could it have happened that he became a tax official? On the computer he looks at pictures from his school days. Back then he wasn't a tax official yet.

That's the thing about human life--there is no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Every time I find the meaning of life, they change it.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." —WILLIAM JAMES, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

Your job next year will not resemble your job this year. If it does, either your employer is not thriving or your position in the company is not secure.

In the beginning of life, we're on fire and want to change the world. Yet as we get older, we realize how difficult that is, so we think that if we can have a positive influence on those around us, we'll have lived a worthwhile life. As we get older still, we understand that we can change no one, and simply look for the courage to change ourselves.

My own experience is that when I've lost something it was irreplaceable, it's usually replaced with something much better. The key to change is having faith that when we get rid of the old, something or someone even more magnificent will take its place.

When you're young you say, "If I become a vegetable, pull the plug!" You get older, you hedge a little. "If I'm a turnip, kill me. If I'm a trendier vegetable, like radicchio, mist me twice a day and trim the wilted leaves."

Discussion Questions 1. Why does legalism appeal to almost every Christian at some time? To what extent are you a "just do it" Christian? What is the cure for legalism? 2. How do people change? How have you answered that question in the past? How do you answer it now? 3. List all the motives people can have for obeying God. What are your main motives for living as a disciple? How might you move to the higher motives?

If the past is a wall with some holes, the future is a hole with no walls.

There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

Thy letters have transported me beyond This ignorant present, and I feel now The future in the instant. Shakespeare, Macbeth

Things will have to change. And one of those things that will have to change: People will have to change their internal world." On