Quotes About Change

Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.

A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

Whereas once it was the customer who favored the merchant by dealing with him, conditions changed until it was the merchant who favored the customer by selling to him. That is bad for business. Monopoly is bad for business. Profiteering

If you always do what you always did - you'll always get what you always got.

Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.

Natural selection is a blind and undirected consequence of the interaction between variation and the environment. Natural selection exists only in the continuous present of the natural world: it has no memory of its previous actions, no plans for the future, or underlying purpose.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

It's easier to imagine the death of the planet than it is to imagine the death of capitalism.

The pagan may lose confidence in one particular kind of authority. When his faith begins to waver, he is more likely to change the name of the imaginary authority – or to assume that it controls everyone except himself – than to accept the nonpagan view that human beings are self-controlling.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

misadventures. 'A family', Johnson would later write, 'is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.'4

The saying Getting there is half the fun became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.

Our focus should not be on emerging technologies, but on emerging cultural practices.

These details are few and meager. It is not easy for us, in the midst of the luxuries, comforts, and necessities of a later civilization, to realize the conditions of western life previous to 1825. But the situation must be understood if one is to know the life of the boy Lincoln.

Every success is usually an admission ticket to a new set of decisions.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

History knows no resting places and no plateaus

Americans hold that every problem has a solution; Chinese think that each solution is an admission ticket to a new set of problems.

For the balance of power is never static; its components are in constant flux.

E veio demonstrar como mudanças internas podem abalar o equilíbrio internacional mais profundamente do que uma agressão externa – uma lição que seria aplicada pelas revoluções do século XX, muitas das quais beberam explicitamente dos conceitos originalmente avançados pela Revolução Francesa.

Porque a mera repetição do que é familiar conduz à estagnação, não é pouca a audácia exigida.