Quotes About Change

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.

I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back.

Ik heb het tijdelijke met het eeuwige vaak genoeg verwisseld in mijn poëzie om te weten dat ik het tijdelijke wil.

Until 1914 I loved to travel I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

Life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind

It's strange how spring and autumn are so alike and yet such inversions. You can wake up on a day in either April or October—the air, the temperature, it can all be identical and yet you know there's a difference.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing." p. 5

The paradox of change is that the only way to alter the way we think is by doing the very things our habitual thinking keeps us from doing.

Gary's seemingly random, circuitous method actually has an underlying logic. But this test-and-learn approach flies in the face of the more traditional method, the

Self-creation is a lifelong journey. Only by our actions do we learn who we want to become, how best to travel, and what else will need to change to ease the way.

Rarely does "becoming an ex" happen as a result of one sudden decision. Instead, it happens over a period of time, one that often begins before we are fully aware of what is happening.

It takes, on average, three years from the time a person decides to leave the company until the day he or she walks out the door. Those are not good or productive years.

oscillating among the different possibilities allows us time to come to new and different ways of integrating who we were then with who we are now and who we are becoming. When this self-exploration and self-testing ends prematurely—either because we are not able to tolerate the contradictions or because we are unable to assimilate new information about ourselves—we risk either letting go of the past too rapidly or holding on to it too rigidly.

McKenna uses this story of a drowning woman to illustrate how stubbornly we can hold ourselves back.