Quotes About Change

There are no good futures. There's nothing to head towards but more garish, unsustainable carnival acts.

ADDENDUM: SOMETIMES THE FUTURE IS BULLSHIT

an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.

The near future? The future of anything is like some massive weather system on the horizon, pushing out thunderheads all over the place, and it's impossible to predict where the lightning will strike. And in 2011 it's worse than ever.

The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.

Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference.

The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.

Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.

No more circuses.

That's how the future always arrives: you don't realize it's here until you bump into it.

But, as much as I will miss these lakes and fields of the Now, it's time to go. Time for another great adventure. Because if I stay here, there will surely be no more and I couldn't bear that.

His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five other things it automagically quantified and uploaded and shared. Digitally, he would actually appear dead.

Predicting causes litter.

You wanted a more interesting world… Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned… Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you.

The City went to me in a LANDSLIDE, and you know why? Because all it wants is decent television, a bit of spare change for booze, and a blowjob every Saturday night.

If you don't do it this year, you'll be one year older when you do.

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.

No one person can do everything . . . but we can all do something.

The electric bulb cannot give light without electricity. Likewise, you cannot change yourself if today you are cut off from Christ. If there be any change or difference in you, it is not because you yourself have changed, for all is in Christ. Such is the way of God's salvation.[2]

Because it has been so united with the devil it is vital for man to receive from God a change of mind before he can receive a new heart.

That sense of contributing to a community is never more rewarding than when you discover something that you believe can improve your readers' lives by changing what and how they think.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.