Quotes About Change

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

You could sense the end of the night, like an omen. After it, as happened every morning, nothing would be the same.

La vergogna può essere un sentimento utile. È il segnale di qualcosa che non va e può essere uno stimolo a cambiare in meglio.»

All'inizio fui colto dall'euforia [...] Poi l'euforia svanì e lasciò il posto allo sgomento. La pillola, il suo rituale e quello che c'era intorno erano stati, in quegli anni, alibi perfetti per evitare ogni responsabilità e sentirmi anche in credito con la vita. Adesso, di punto in bianco, gli alibi non c'erano più [...] D'un tratto mi ritrovavo in mare aperto, e non ero pronto

An even more pointed reminder of changed circumstances, of course, is the AIG symbol sported, doubtless with some chagrin, by Manchester United, worth £14 million a year to the club when the deal was done thirty months ago, but now as ignominiously conspicuous as mouthing a slogan for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in May 1937: 'You'll always travel Fuhrer class on the Hindenburg!' Man

In short, the post–Cold War order is unraveling, and while not perfect, it will be missed.

Every glorious Gift comes from God. It is meant to change lives and lift His name on high.

I close my eyes and try to find the sound of the clock in the living room. There it is, past all the voices, the plates and forks clicking, the feet walking from room to room. There is the clock, keeping up with everything as if nothing has changed at all.

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

We do wish for easy answers, for silver bullets, for proven programs, for implementable solutions. When paradigms shift, when deep change is needed, our very assumptions, values and behaviors are questioned. The real challenge is to re-invent the very world we live in.

You will not be able to stay home, brother.You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out.You will not be able to lose yourself on scagand skip out for beer during commercial breaks.The revolution will not be televised.

You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, Will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will not be re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.

The revolution will not be televised

Turn around, turn around, turn around And you may come full circle And be new here again

America want nostalgia. They want to go back as far as they can, even if it turns out to be only last week. Not to face now or the future, but to face backwards.

The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see there might be another way to look at it that you have not been shown.

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised, Will not be televised, will not be televised. The revolution will be not re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.

Before you can change the world, you must understand that you yourself are part of it. You can not stand outside, looking in.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.