Quotes About Change

Quizá la culpa no era suya sino de la condición misma del tiempo, de los días, que se sucedían a un ritmo abúlico y discreto, e inesperadamente le caían encima convertidos en voluminosas décadas: un tiempo homogéneo, sin puertas ni límites palpables, en el que la adolescencia se encontraba a segundos de la vejez; un tiempo engañoso que sólo daba la cara cuando uno se detenía a reflexionar en él.

Sólo se tiene un futuro cuando no se tiene un presente". La

Son los políticos que quieren dejar huella y nada más acarrean destrozos.

En el Distrito Federal nadie extraña a nadie, todos desean la ausencia del otro, su desaparición repentina, se sueltan algunas lágrimas a causa de las pérdidas y después viene la felicidad.

One day, they will wake up to an extremely unbearable ocean of sameness. (re: changing San Francisco)

My readings also led me to some of China's recent transformations that had made China almost unrecognizable to an historian.

I was far away from where China was changing and was constantly reminded that more changes were around the corner.

have a kink as solid and full of habit as the ones in the hose. Slowly I pull out the full length of the hose and lay it where it needs to be before I turn on the water. Inside, too, I must unroll my full attention. Old habits of thought twist themselves into kinks and knots. We will be forced to acknowledge this again and again.

Problems are opportunities.

The conception of property has experienced a fundamental change. The individualistic conception of the State - a result of the liberal spirit- must give way to the concept that communal welfare precedes individual welfare.

So when Yudhishthira tells Draupadi that eventually human acts do bear fruit, even though the fruit is invisible,56 one might interpret 'fruit' to mean the building of character through repeated actions. Yudhishthira was certainly aware that repeated actions had a way of changing one's inclinations to act in a certain way. That inclination is character.

I have learned that the Mahabharata is about the way we deceive ourselves, how we are false to others, how we oppress fellow human beings, and how deeply unjust we are in our day-to-day lives. But is this moral blindness an intractable human condition, or can we change it? Some of our misery is the result of the way the state also treats us, and can we redesign our institutions to have a more sympathetic government?

India is not a tiger, and change will always be slower than in East Asia. India is an elephant which has stirred from its slumber and has finally begun to move ahead with a degree of determination. However, unlike a sprinting tiger that runs out of steam, the elephant has stamina.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

if the classic idea of the Atonement ever again resumes a leading place in Christian theology, it is not likely that it will revert to precisely the same forms of expression that it has used in the past; its revival will not consist in a putting back of the clock.

The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another… We are the State and we shall continue to be the State until we have created the institutions that form a real community.

Revolution- a principle stepping over vast distances of time.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Tradition is laziness.

Our path leads to the threshold of maturity. Once you arrive at it, you are also worthy of receiving that gift. In either case, you will have become a phoenix: it is up to you to get there by force.

Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

The future is the worst thing about the present.