Quotes About Change

Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up... and we're still fighting it.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.

There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

The problem of moral change would appear to be one of presenting stimuli which are both sufficiently incongruous as to stimulate conflict in the child's existing stage schemata and sufficiently congruous as to be assimilable with some accomodative effort.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine.

Within the theater lies the power to stimulate and alter the hearts and minds of both the privileged and those who have too long been denied.

There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreating where you grew up. It's strange and stimulating.

It's stimulating to teach a new course. To teach a course three times in a row is, I think, about the maximum for me. On the second year - you know, the saying is that first year you learn how to teach the course, the second year you do it right, and the third year you're coasting and you had better move on to something else.

It is extraordinary the extent to which Darwin's insights not only changed his contemporaries' view of the world but also continue to be a source of great intellectual stimulation for scientists and nonscientists alike.

Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.

I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

I feel like anybody would be heartbroken to see how quickly or easily you are replaced; of course that's going to sting.

I like stirring the pot - I think it's part of my duty, to shake people up a bit - make them look at things in a different way.

And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again.

What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

Acting in itself is changing. This change is because of the advent of the casting director. Earlier, there would be stock characters, who would be seen in every film. Now, casting directors are bringing fresh faces.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

I've learned that things change. The whole boy band thing almost turned into a stock market crash.

Goteborg used to be a not very cool place to live. The culture centered around shrimp and bingo. Bands played Copenhagen and Stockholm and skipped Goteborg.

In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.