Quotes About Change

If I were ever to go on a trip, I think I should make written notes of the slightest traits of my character before leaving, so that when I returned I would be able to compare what I was and what I had become.

RevoluÅ£ionarul este individul care doreÅŸte s? schimbe lumea ÅŸi o dep??eÅŸte în sensul viitorului c?tre o ordine a valorilor pe care o inventeaz?.

Fabrikalar, k?rsal alan? mahvediyordu ve büyükbabam, soyut bilimlerde yaln?zca soyutluÄŸu seviyordu.

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.

My odd feelings of the other week seem to me quite ridiculous today: I can no longer enter into them.

Nothing has changed and yet everything is different. I can't describe it; it's like the Nausea and yet it's just the opposite: at last an adventure happens to me and when I question myself I see that it happens that I am myself and that I am here; I am the one who splits the night, I am as happy as the hero of a novel.

The letters I had inscribed on it were not even dry yet and already they belonged to the past.

Anny hasn't changed her letter paper, I wonder if she still buys it at the little stationer's in Piccadilly. I think that she has also kept her coiffure, her heavy blonde locks she didn't want to cut. She must struggle patiently in front of mirrors to save her face: it isn't vanity or fear of growing old; she wants to stay as she is, just as she is. Perhaps this is what I liked best in her, this austere loyalty to her most insignificant features.

Mighty king, come from so far, prepared by so many combinations, by so many vanished gestures. He disappears in turn, so that other combinations can be born, other gestures, attacks, counterattacks, turns of luck, a crowd of small adventures.

Bir çeÅŸit kesinlik... fiziksel bir kesinlik içindeyim, yetkin anlar?n olmad???n? duyuyorum. YürüdüÄŸüm zaman ta ayaklar?mda bile duyuyorum bunu. Her zaman, hatta uykuda bile duyuyorum, unutam?yorum. Bir anda anlam?? deÄŸilim bunu; hayat?m ÅŸu gün, ÅŸu saatte birdenbire deÄŸiÅŸti diyemem. Ama ÅŸu anda, sanki bu bana dün aç?klanm?? gibiyim. ÅžaÅŸk?n?m, tedirginim, al??am?yorum.

I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that it was broken all over the place and decided to work on that too.

Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.

Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

People try much less hard to make a marriage work than they used to fifty years ago. Divorce is easier.

I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.

And, hey, I'm not under the illusion that everything's just going to be hunky-dory work-wise forever. I've never been under that illusion. Things could go away tomorrow.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have done.

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

I've been trying to get away from physical violence; it's too easy; it doesn't satisfy me artistically to work with it. Dramatic violence is much more interesting, but it's much more difficult.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.