Quotes About Change

in a snap the world can fall down around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Shoganai. Shoganai. That's all I ever hear Book 3, p374

There is no one so cruel as a utopian who sees traditionalists standing in the way of the March of History.

Branches formed and flowed separately for some distance before they merged again with the growing river as it flowed on to today. Which

When trying to get people to change familiar ways of doing things, social pressures and constraints exerted by the informal peer group represent the most potent restraining force that must be overcome and, at the same time, the most powerful inducing force that can be exploited to achieve success.

More possibilities and opportunities for women would bring greater expectations and responsibilities—along with a lack of both illusions and stability.

the logic of life is continual change, continual motion, continual evolution.

One of the hardest lessons to learn in academic life—and for me one of the most disconcerting—is the speed with which a radical insurgency can become orthodoxy. In just a few years a generation of students championing a dangerous new idea are elevated by an initial success into professorships. From these positions of influence they form a powerful network of academic power brokers, which they use to ensure the continuation of the revolution.

17. This is enshrined in a second rule,fn2 which we call Rule 2: The outcome of a measurement can only be predicted probabilistically. But afterward, the measurement changes the quantum state of the system being measured, by putting it in the state corresponding to the result of the measurement. This is called collapse of the wave function.

When someone answers a question about the foundations of a subject, it can change everything we know.

Do I care about these other branches? Should I? There is always the chance that at some time in the future an empty branch recombines with my branch, causing interference, which changes my life

Being at rest becomes merely a special case of uniform motion-it is just motion at zero speed.

Copernicus, 1996). Julian

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars

How can U say one style is better than another. You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you"ve given up something. ... I think that would be so great, to be able to change styles. And I think that's what's going to happen, that's going to be the whole new scene. - Andy Warhol, 1963

For death is but a passing phase of Life; A change of dress, a disrobing; A birth into the unborn again; A commencing where we ended; A starting where we stopped to rest; A crossroad of Eternity; A giving up of something, to possess all things. The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real.

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

Nature does not make leaps.

p.35: Tom Peters. En un mundo de cambio rápido y aun explosivo, las compañías tienen que construir una organización comparativamente dinámica que REÚNA A LOS CLIENTES, EMPLEADOS Y SOCIOS ESTRATÉGICOS EN BUSCA DE RELACIONES, PRODUCTOS Y AMBIENTES DE TRABAJO QUE CREEN GRAN ENTUSIASMO, CREATIVIDAD Y SATISFACCIÓN.