Quotes About Change

Politicians today vow, "Never again!" But they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.

Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed, because the natural human tendency is to do more of the same and to serve existing clients and needs well, past relationships can be positively detrimental.

Apart from the added efficiency, the willingness to be ruthless helps innovation. Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed,

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

Everything that is worth winning, is worth loosing as well.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

We're never single-minded, unperplexed, like migratory birds.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Caste taboos had been broken, and a measure of equality introduced. But they had also become a distinct community, which for writing used a new script called

Tilak had complained that Gandhi was asking too much of the Indian people. He was proved right. Non-violence, not harming the hated British, embracing jails, Hindu-Muslim unity, giving up titles, contributing money, the abolition of untouchability—each item on the long list was desirable, but also costly.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Unlocking individual change starts and ends with the mental maps people carry in their heads-how they see the organization and their jobs.

A comfortable rut and a grave are very much alike. The only real difference is the dimensions.

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

Teresa witnesses to the fact that even if we are not fully attentive in our prayer, little by little, even imperfect prayer will change us. Simply "showing up" for prayer time evidences our desire to be with the Lord. Even though sometimes it seems that we are more there physically than spiritually, our desire allows Him to draw us closer.7

Repentance must involve a change of life, bringing our lives into harmony with God's will. This means turning away from sin and yielding to the transforming work of the Spirit so we may grow in virtue.