Quotes About Change

Shoes block pain, not impact! Pain teaches us to run comfortably! From the moment you start going barefoot, you will change the way you run.

we got better at running because our heads were expanding, thereby providing more ballast.

slova sociologa Erika Hoffera: "Vše velké za?íná jako hnutí, m?ní se to v podnikání a kon?í jako kšefta?ení.

Whenever an art form loses its fire, when it gets weakened by intellectual inbreeding and first principles fade into stale tradition, a radical fringe eventually appears to blow it up and rebuild from the rubble.

Okay, so primitive man upgraded his hardware with a bigger brain

New movements, no matter how necessary or logical, just feel wrong.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

We've had bad luck with children; they've all grown up

We've had bad luck with our kids — they've all grown up.

Summer was over, and we were no longer young, but there were great things before us.

We've had bad luck with our kids – they've all grown up.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

There are two Mississippi Valleys. One is wet, the other dry. The river made the wet valley by flooding it with dirty water and filling it with mud. People made the dry valley by draining it of water and hardening mud into dirt. The two valleys exist in uneasy tension, the wet valley always ready to burst into the dry valley that holds it down.

You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

We carry in our worlds that flourish, our worlds that have failed.

All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

The dream-state of the Archipelago, which is what we islanders most respond to, and least wish to see changed, seems likely to continue without interference for a long time to come.

As we grow we do not see ourselves changing – there is the apparent continuity of the mirror, the daily awareness of immediate past – and it takes the reminders of old photographs or old friends to point out the differences.

Everything is 'smart' now. The library cataloging system is smart, classification and indexing information entered into a uniform online database. People wept and lamented the loss of the old cards, then forgot them. They pretty much forget everything they weep over and lament. Clop-clop of hooves on the street. The humble art of carrying a block of ice up the stairs, pincered by a pair of tongs. Rotary phones and 33 rpm records. Stamp-pad ink and poster paint.

Most people's identities were important to them, something they wouldn't shed. It was proud, it was timid, it was laudable, it was stupid. It stuck people with dumb friends and crummy marriages. Trapped them in dead towns and murderous neighborhoods. It manufactured tradition from the uninterrupted drudgery of successive generations. It transformed ignorant belief into folklore, and ignorance itself into defiance. Identity was a trap.

It is heartening to realize that we are not nearly so stuck as it might at first appear. Cultures do change. Things that now seem normal—such as hyper-individualism and economism—can suddenly come to be seen as untenable and brought to an end with surprising quickness. These seismic changes occur as people free themselves from limiting beliefs and in the process cultivate a new worldview.

It is a very strong rule in drama, and in life, that people remain true to their basic natures. They change, and their change is essential for drama, but typically they only change a little, taking a single step towards integrating a forgotten or rejected quality into their natures.