Quotes About Change

One of the problems with travelling in the TARDIS, no matter what state of repair it might ultimately be in, is that you can leave a place of sweltering heat to find yourself in bitter cold, and you always seem to have put on the wrong clothes for it.

You've left things better than you found them, and that's pretty much all that anybody can hope for.

Just feeling a little out of place, Doctor,' said Jamon. 'Indeed, some small part of me wonders if I'll ever be in place. Well, not actually a place as such, but you'll understand what I mean. Traveller is what I am, my place being forever that of a stranger on any world, in my own small way – but with the Engines of the Empire being destroyed as we speak, that life is no more.

Are you all right?' Fitz had asked him. 'I mean, it's not just that you're going mad on us, it's like you're going mad on us in different ways, like different people are doing it. .

When desperate people seek easy solutions without doing the hard work of fundamental learning and change, resilience is undermined and real growth and learning fade.

desafío estratégico clave es transformar una empresa tan rápido o más rápido que los cambios del entorno. Esta capacidad de tomar las decisiones necesarias de forma rápida, creativa e inteligente se denomina «agilidad estratégica». Según

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

When you're under the influence of this belief, you tend to act as if the simple act of worrying can change the future, that it might prevent bad events from happening that would have otherwise happened. I'm not referring here to situations in which your thoughts lead you to take action, and those actions influence the future. Here I mean that people treat worry itself as something that can affect the future.

the expectation of receiving a reward will transform the nature of the sacrifice.

Ono što je jednom ispri?ano ne može nikada više da se ponovi. Ono što se jednom desilo, desilo se zauvek.

Sa prošloš?u, me?utim, ?ovek nikada ne sme da bude siguran. Ona nije, ube?en sam, tako nepromenljiva kao što se ?esto ?uje, ve? se rado, mada u krajnje svedenom obliku, menja i tako uti?e na ne?iju sadašnjost i budu?nost.

The great secret about goals and visions is not the future they describe but the change in the present they engender.

[Psychiatric] drugs have so many side effects because using them to treat a complex psychiatric disorder is a bit like trying to change your engine oil by opening a can and pouring it all over the engine block. Some of it will dribble into the right place, but a lot of it will do more harm than good.

She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else's life might alter hers.

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently. That's what I'm saying.

No, make something different from war. Don't allow your enemies to be enemies. Make them something else, because otherwise they have a power over you that they should not have. If you think in the same ways as the past, you will only get new versions of the past. Think differently.

Next out of the car

There is absolutely nothing certain in this world, Noah, other than the truth you see directly in front of your eyes at a given moment. Truth has a habit of mutating itself; it is always possible that, no matter what the evidence in front of you might suggest, there can be another explanation for any event you can imagine.

The character of the older flats battling against the utilitarian nature of the contemporary ones.

When things happen, they tend to happen suddenly.

Barking dogs, Sam knew from sad experience, weren't regarded with the same respect they once had been. There was a time when a barking dog would cause the homeowner to get up and look out the windows, just to make sure no one was prowling around the yard. Nowadays, though, most people simply wished the dog would shut up.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

Nothing, however, lasts forever. Two weeks can seem like a lifetime when you are just beginning it, but the last day always seems to have come too quickly. It was finally time to head back to the real world,