Quotes About Change

History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.

It is a question of social realism, of becoming aware of an already given situation, to start from it, and to modify it.

Only four years ago they had presumably been carefree, single girls laughing in a disco and now, as if hardened by some battle, they were assertive, humourless creatures he would not care to live with.

He had finally got money, he had taken off his moustache, he was driving a car that few could afford, he was a new man. But the world failed to recognise him as such.

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.

When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Exploring the dynamic between tradition and change when it came to the role of women as powerful and influential figures is an essential part of understanding the evolving nature of the Roman world. This is complicated by the fact that the Romans to a large extent did not themselves necessarily recognize how the political and social role of women was changing.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

there is an inverse correlation between the complexity of society and of word structure!

People can cope with the chaos of change over the years (that is, with 'diachronic variation'), simply because they can cope with the even greater chaos of synchronic variation, the diversity at any one point in time.

change is not the exception but the rule.

without these much maligned forces of destruction, language would never have developed in the first place.

Like any pendulum worth its weight, received opinion finds it difficult to swing from one extreme position and settle directly in the middle, without first hurtling all the way to the opposite extreme.

The simple truth is that ll languages change, all the time - the only static languages are dead ones.

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

The only thing worried thoughts have the power to change is what the next thing will be for you to worry over!

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

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Bir yerden ayr?lmaktan korkma, oraya ba?l? kalmaktan kork, al??kanl?klar?ndan kork. Hep ayn? kalmaktan kork.

Then, rather than trying to change others to suit our needs, our choice would be to simply drop this false idea that someone else is responsible for our fulfillment.

There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who had? But if you didn't change at least a little, where were the passages of a life? Didn't learning, changing, sometimes mean letting go of what had once been seen as true?