Quotes About Change

I have no past--the steps have disappeared the wind has blown them away.

The things we never challenge are the things that never change

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

Nonsense, my good man! What we lose in vigor, we only gain in wisdom.

No son las especies más fuertes ni las más inteligentes las que sobreviven, sino las que saben dar una respuesta mejor al cambio. CHARLES DARWIN

If you're not growing anywhere, you're not going anywhere.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence,' wrote Tom Peters in Thriving on Chaos, 'only in constant improvement and constant change.

I want out of the freak show and into the main tent.

Righteousness is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is coupled with a deep commitment to become better.

As Michael pondered how shallow he had been, he was struck by another thought. It wasn't simply that he hadn't gone deep enough. It was rather that he had grown accustomed to wading in pools that had no depth to begin with. A turn toward holiness would be a turn toward a different life altogether - to a life where different things mattered than had mattered in the past. Did he desire such a life? He knew that of all the questions, this was the most important.

The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of the old Europe as well.

Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let them go because they're just not making headway. But we have a very clear personal relationship with the authors.

As the blood flowed back to his brain, he turned back into the rather formal young man I had worked so hard to corrupt.

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.

I just saw a squirrel I used to know, but I'm not sure he recognized me. Last line of 'Season of the Witch

A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.

Just tell me this: when did a shipload of criminals, desperadoes, and fugitives become such a bunch of do-gooders?" Inara had the answer. "When their captain showed them how.

Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.

The difference between the long-term average of the graph and the ice age, 12,000 years ago, is just over 3°C. The IPCC 2001 report suggests that the line of the hockey stick graph might rise a further 5°C during this century. This is about twice as much as the temperature change from the ice age to pre-industrial times.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.