Quotes About Change

That terrible awareness that life could twist on you in a blink wasn't something a person could forget.

Only his eyes changed. His pupils dilated, big liquid pools cracking like black yolks, spilling into his irises.

He was changed, burned, branded, destroyed and rebuilt. And he loved it.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight. We always go out on Fridays. It's Thursday, Alvis. You are so tied to routine.

And I wonder if we don't live like water seeking a level a low bed until one day we just go dry. I wonder if a creek ever realizes it has made its own grave.

People expect a story to always mean the same thing, but I have found that stories change like people do.

And it's a life with no shortage of moments to recommend it, a life that picks up speed like a boulder rolling down a hill, easy and natural and comfortable, and yet beyond control somehow; it all happens so fast, you wake a young man and at lunch are middle-aged and by dinner you can imagine your death.

It's quite a thing when the world is upside down to hear someone say it don't have to be—that a man could be paid enough to feed and house himself.

And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exacting part, the action? It's all so fast.

Each gray hair still seemed like a weevil in a flower bed.

They killed the world and called it progress.

I could write for days about the disappointment of politics.

I won't pretend that I didn't like the voice, the power that changing horoscopes gave me.

I think there are only two things you can do with your hometown: look for ways to make it better, or look for another place to live.

Couldn't you outgrow the little-girl fantasy? Couldn't love be gentler, smaller, quiter, not quite all-consuming?

Automobiles and horse wagons filled the streetcar's wake, and Rye stood at that intersection for a long time, staring at the tracks. The whole country was laced together with tracks. He could get on a train and end up in New York City if he wanted, and this felt like another reverie, or a premonition. The world was becoming a single place.

Guterak looked over. "Hey, you got your hair cut." "Yeah." Remy put the cap back on. "What made you do that?" "I shot myself in the head last night." "Well." Paul drove quietly for a moment, staring straight ahead. "It looks good.

Being aware of yourself and choosing your behavior is the first step towards powerful life change. This is how we become better people. This is how we become better parents.

All the clichés turned out to be true: what once had seemed important no longer mattered at all.

Over the years, I've learned that the first idea you have is irrelevant. It's just a catalyst for you to get started. Then you figure out what's wrong with it and you go through phases of denial, panic, regret. And then you finally have a better idea and the second idea is always the important one.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Because you'll go through so many changes, I don't think it pays off to overanalyze the first business plan, for example. The first business plan is there to make sure you can use Microsoft Word.

In big companies, there's always going to be more politics and less scope for individual decisions. But seeing what startups are really like will at least show other organizations what to aim for. The time may soon be coming when instead of startups trying to seem more corporate, corporations will try to seem more like startups. That would be a good thing.

determination is the most important quality in a founder, open-mindedness and willingness to change your idea are key, and all startups face rejection at first.