Quotes About Change

is true. We change not by mustering up willpower but by changing the way we think, which will also involve changing our actions and our social environment. We change indirectly. We do what we can

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Money is normative. So pervasive is its influence on our lives that it makes less moneyed ages incomprehensible, consigning them to barbarism or folklore. Yet history is not inevitable: antiquity did not aspire to our present condition and might have generated a quite different present.

In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.

You are either green and growing or you are ripe and rotting." Pick

Question one: Is there anything else I can do to help them succeed? "Question two: Is there another seat on the bus where they can be successful, and does it make sense to make that change? "Question three: If the person resigned today, would I try to talk them out of it or rehire

One of the great paradoxes of social engineering is that it seems at odds with the experience of modernity generally. Trying to jell a social world, the most striking characteristic of which appears to be flux, seems rather like trying to manage a whirlwind.

Thrown from my secure life, whether by chance or the Powers That Be, I was sitting on a skipping stone and it was fear, not confidence, that was increasing with the ripples of uncertainty. Mine had become a world without center.

Truth never changes; it is the same now, yesterday, and forever, in itself; but our relations towards truth may change, for that which is hidden from us today may become known to us tomorrow.

The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of woodsmoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

It was my grandmother who first told me that a woman marries a man in the belief that he'll change but he doesn't -- and a man marries a woman in the belief that she won't change but she does.

The popes who succeeded John XXIII were in clericalism's grip, which is why the reforms of his council didn't have a chance.

Restlessness, therefore, is not to be regretted, but marshaled. Humans live toward.

Having seen what the Catholic priesthood has become, I feel the shock, also, of what it has in some way been all along.

To be human, therefore, is to be on the way to becoming something else.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

But I'd rather not predict. I'd rather affect.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

You may be yesterday's news to some but you will be tomorrows front page to many