Quotes About Change

You cannot see the future. You cannot change the past. All of life consists of running into darkness.

We'll shape them through their memes," he said. "We'll kill off the bad memes, and help spread the ones we want to succeed.

All an organism could do from day to day was shore itself up in some rough semblance of its previous condition. The same was true, from moment to moment, for the state of the whole universe. By one means or another, everyone was an imperfect imitation

You'll never stop changing, but that doesn't mean you have to drift in the wind. Every day, you can take the person you've been, and the new things you've witnessed, and make your own, honest choice as to who you should become. "Whatever happens, you can always be true to yourself. But don't expect to end up with the same inner compass as anyone else. Not unless they started beside you, and climbed beside you every step of the way.

Understanding an idea meant entangling it so thoroughly with all the other symbols in your mind that it changed the way you thought about everything. Still

No one objects to the notion that every technological civilisation might undergo its own Introdus.

I used to think that if you changed from … valuing one thing to valuing another, it was because you'd learnt something new, understood something better. And it's not like that at all. I just value what I'm stuck with. That's it, that's the whole story. People make a virtue out of necessity. They sanctify what they can't escape.

you have to leave something behind to go forward -Newton's Third Law of Motion

Sometimes distance improves love. Sometimes it dissolves it. I think you deserve to know which has happened.

Anakin: "You look…different." Tahiri: "Older maybe? I'm fourteen now. Last week." Anakin: "Happy birthday." Tahiri: "You should have thought of it then, but thanks anyway. Dummy.

My grandfather had two boys, my uncle had three boys, my dad had me and my two brothers, each of my brothers have had two boys. Then something happened with the chromosomal experiment and suddenly I've got three girls.

When someone's paradigm changes, the world itself changes with it. So "facts" are only facts *for a system* or paradigm.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change.

What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society - pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

It has been broadly observed that the first Reformation of the early 1500s placed the Bible in the hands of the people and that the Second Reformation will place the ministry in the hands of the people.

Jesus' thought was, "Give me teachable, loyal people, and watch me change the world.

We must acknowledge that the climate in the Western world makes any traditional form of sharing the gospel more difficult than in the recent past.

John Kotter in Leading Change says that a primary reason why change does not occur is that there is no sense of urgency.

Leadership is about instilling urgency.

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It's an odd question actually, because your body has never been a permanent thing – it is an illusion.

Made in Japan," "Made in Italy," "Made in the United States"—each has meaning to customers and infers that a product has certain qualities based on its country of origin. Such perceptions can change over time. Immediately after World War II, products made in Japan were considered of poor quality and inexpensive, which may seem hard to believe in light of the preeminent view of Japanese quality in the 21st century.