Quotes About Change

Much of our time is spent just maintaining our emotional lives and physical conditions. To move ahead, we often have to clear a trail as we go. Progress and development do not occur without change in our motivations and actions.

Harlem had needed something to smash. To smash something is the ghetto's chronic need.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

In 1931 there were three crimes a year for every police officer. In 2001 there were 44.

Taste every time you cook, and take nothing for granted--not even your own palate, for it can change. Mine has.... Since doing time on a salt-free diet, I approach a plain baked potato reverently. Maybe I've been missing the truth--the nutty, delicate earthiness of a perfect baked potato. Salt only masks it. In a fancy mood, I heighten it with caviar; in a plain mood, I just give it several grinds of fresh black pepper.

Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.

When Sting arrived on Tyneside in November 1992, to receive his degree, he informed me that it was no longer me who was the skint one.

After illumination," Socrates continued, "difficulties continue to arise; what changes is your relationship to them. You see more and resist less. You gain the capacity to turn your problems into lessons and your lessons into wisdom."  

Wish I had known what seemed so strong has been and gone.

How do you get people to want to live in time, to have a sense of the importance of time for growth, development, of the need for ups-and-downs, of non-homogenized development? [...] A revolution in the U.S. is only going to be led and made by people with some sense of the thickness of time, of time as duration, of time as heterogenous, of development through contradiction, not in a straight line.

Ideas cannot be changed through argument. We are not seeking to discover new ideas but rather to create new attitudes in ourselves and others with regard to ideas.

Age does not guarantee wisdom. And youth is no guarantee of innovation.

In the blithe days of honeymoon, With Kate's allurements smitten, I loved her late, I loved her soon, And call'd her dearest kitten. But now my kitten's grown a cat, And cross like other wives, O! by my soul, my honest Mat, I fear she has nine lives.

The first step in saving our liberty is to realize how much we have already lost, how we lost it, and how we will continue to lose it unless fundamental political changes occur.

The more that democracy is assumed to be inevitable, the more likely it will self-destruct.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

If you just amass the courage that is necessary, you can completely reinvent yourself. You can be your own hero.

It takes a long time to ruin a life. It all starts with the stories we live by.