Quotes About Change

I often say that if we , as a people, had as much religion in our hearts and souls as we have in our legs and feet, we could change the world. (p.15) It is my opinion that sincerity is not enough for preaching ministry. The minister must be both sincere and intelligent. (p.18)

For Martin, social justice would not "roll in on the wings of inevitability" but would come through struggle and sacrifice. *

I had thought the destination was what was important, but it turned out it was the journey.

Disruptive technologies typically enable new markets to emerge.

The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

disruptive technology should be framed as a marketing challenge, not a technological one.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Fingernails filling with silt, scraping the sculpted...

Anxiety has forged another weather.

The perfect tattoo... the one I believe we are all struggling toward... is the one that turned the jackass into a zebra.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.

A million years ago there had been no river here and in a million years to come there might be no river – but in a million years from now there would be, if not Man, at least a caring thing. And that was the secret of the universe, Enoch told himself – a thing that went on caring.

But man had changed. He had lost the old knowledge and old skills. His mind had become a flaccid thing. He lived from one day to the next without any shining goal. But he still kept the old vices—the vices that had become virtues from his own viewpoint and raised him by his own bootstraps. He kept the unwavering belief that his was the only kind, the only life that mattered—the smug egoism that made him the self-appointed lord of all creation.

For Russia, the early 1900s and the 1990s represent more than just the century's bookends. They also are twin periods of transition in Russian history. Both decades were marked by defeat in war, imperial and economic collapse, and attempts at dramatic reform. Both were infused with nostalgia for a past.

Life moved on like a river, and water could not long remember the bruise it had received from a rock upstream.

IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN STAY AS HE IS, THEN TREAT HIM AS HE IS. IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN CHANGE, THEN TREAT HIM AS THE PERSON YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO BECOME.

I'm no spring chicken. The clock goes and Bessie goes. Only my machinery can't be fixed.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Fifty years ago I knew the names of everyone who lived in my street. Now, in this age of information, I know the names of hardly anybody who lives in my street.