Quotes About Change

After a tragedy, a farce. Philosophy enters into her power, and the earth returns under one's feet.

So long as the child was fed on its mother's milk, everything seemed to it smooth and easy. But when it had to give up milk and take to vodka, - and this is the inevitable law of human development - the childish suckling dreams receded into the realm of the irretrievable past.

Tothom vol canviar el món, però ningú pensa a canviar-se ell mateix

Togli il sangue dalle vene e versaci dell'acqua al suo posto: allora si che non ci saranno più guerre.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

Your goals and priorities will change over time. Always keep your current goals on a single sheet of paper with you. It demystifies the future, and will keep you on track and help you get what you want.

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Firms adopt computers to gain a particular competitive advantage. Realizing computers' potential requires reorganizing work. As computers proliferate in the workplace, the jobs they create, destroy, and change are the byproduct of this work reorganization.

If, instead of our claiming to be a changeful personality, we could regain our true centre, that immutable, conscious self which observes the personality, we should at once and for ever be happy and peaceful, because we would then know for certain that what affected the body could not affect our self.

The wringing of hands may achieve little, but inspiration and education precede intelligent action.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.

Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.

Advance twice, set to partners… change lobsters, and retire in same order.

I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

Time and space are absolute. Diseases are evil spirits that inhabit the body. Parallel lines never meet. The earth is the center of the universe. Children are miniature adults. At one time in history each of these beliefs was generally held to be true. Each, however, gave way to different ideas and even different world views.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.