Quotes About Change

Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.

It was as Ginger's grandfather had said. It did not matter how far you go, you always take yourself with you.

You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn't ride it... You could feed it and brush it and water it and all. Sometimes, I've thought that's what most marriages get to. A horse you still care a little about but cannot any longer ride.

It is the first shower that wets." "Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart." "Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't

But that is the way of the world, is it not? Every day a child steps away from the parent by the littlest distance, perhaps just the width of a mouse-whisker, but every day it happens and the days go by, one after another after another

Doua drumuri se desparteau intr-o padure, iar eu... Eu am luat-o pe cel mai putin batatorit, Si asta a schimbat complet lucrurile.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.  The person you are right now is as transient, as fleeting and as temporary as all the people you've ever been. The one constant in our lives is change. Daniel Gilbert

Jill felt an emptiness open inside of her as she lifted her arm, a sense that something vital was being subtracted from her life. It was always like that when somebody you cared about went away, even when you knew it was inevitable, and it probably wasn't your fault.

Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.

We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.

Back then, when everybody thought the world would last forever, nobody had time for anything.

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

People come, people go Some grow young, some grow cold I woke up in between A memory and a dream So let's get to the point, let's roll another joint Let's head on down the road There's somewhere I gotta go And you don't know how it feels You don't know how it feels to be me

In short, California's climate, chaotic under normal conditions, is about to get weirder and wilder. Indeed, it's already happening.

We move in spasms.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid - but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.

The nail knot can be used to permanently attach a 6-inch section of heavy monofilament to your fly line, with a perfection loop on the other end. This makes it easy to change leaders, with a loop-to-loop connection. You can also attach the butt section of your leader directly to the fly line with this knot. It helps to have a tube to tie this knot, and makes it much easier to do than with just a nail.

At first I thought that my life was going around in circles. Then I got to looking closer, and it's actually a downward spiral.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

The Jews were slaves in the land of their Exile, and suddenly they found themselves with unlimited freedom, wild freedom that only exists in a land like Turkey. This sudden change has produced in their hearts an inclination toward repressive tyranny, as always happens when a slave rules.