Quotes About Change

This could be the cause of all modern neurosis . . . [;] the fact that we have no immovable identity, no hard facts. That everything we know as foundational truth is subject to change.

That is when the commitment to change would be put to the test: when the cameras are gone and the reporters are gone and the glamour disappears and the tedium sets in—the crushing tedium. That is when you realize, in your solitary moments, how much of your life you will have to sacrifice to change the world.

I'm of the opinion that secrets kept in life should be honored in death, that nothing changes simply because you're not there to defend yourself.

write the past in disappearing ink

A few years ago" has a comfortable distance. The blood is dry, the scabs hardened, peeled. Early on was different.

The world is undergoing a movement toward authoritarianism, Delaney, and this is about order. People think the world is out of control. They want someone to stop the changes. This aligns perfectly with what the Every is doing: feeding the urge to control, to reduce nuance, to categorize, and to assign numbers to anything inherently complex. To simplify. To tell us how it will be. An authoritarian promises these things, too.

It was no longer exotic to have a gay presidential candidate. In fact, since the advent of the Indiana mayor—never president but now a senator—no presidential election had been without one. Though, to be sure, every gay candidate had been in a certain mold—

And for a good portion of the human race, because something has not already been, that is a good reason to fear it coming to be.

Who but a fringe character would try to impede the unimpeachable improvement of the world?

In the changing of the times," Abe wrote to one of his students, "they were like autumn lightning, a thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded on fields already bare.

If it doesn't do you any good, dump it. Take some action, push that lever, flush it away, and don't look back. Take small steps everyday of your life, and start taking control of what you say when you talk to yourself.

Whatever you do, do something positive.

In times of change and uncertainty, when familiar landmarks have shifted or disappeared, it is understandable that we hanker after familiarity and straightforward answers. But the future of our world hinges on 'round-table' people who will

It is said that you are a New Yorker the moment you remember the way New York used to be. This miraculous place lives to obliterate its history. It is history as fashion. Trend. Moments. Moments lost and... overwritten. You have to hunt the past in NY. Not like Prague. Budapest. Krakow. Paris. Istanbul. These places wear their pasts with honor over their hearts. A woman. Not a girl. New York... is youth. Always trying on new masks, new faces.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is. When

But sometimes I have to get out of my comfort zone to stay motivated to do excellent work over the long term.

My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects.

Water is what it is, and does what it does. It can overwhelm, but it's not overwhelmed. It can be still, but it is not impatient. It can be forced to change course, but it is not frustrated.

Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.

Alvin Toffler

Most people have lived in a semistressful experience so consistently, for so long, they don't know that it could be quite different—that there is another and more positive place from which to engage with their world.

When I habitually applied the tenets of this program it saved my life . . . when I faithfully applied them, it changed my life.