Quotes About Change

Now her life was under attack, and she [Kit] was shocked to find how fragile everything she'd built really was. She was dumbfounded, too to find that while people were being ripped from her life like paper dolls from a chain, she longed to be the one who'd be gone first.

I wasn't heading toward a future I wanted as much as I was running away from one I didn't.

You call this a catastrophe, but take it from me, the line between a catastrophe and a miracle is a fine one.'

Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you're upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

Why does so much of life have to be about letting go?

It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you.

For so many people, the stronger the evidence of failed strategies, the deeper they cling to their ways.

Just as we can get caught in outmoded habit-patterns passed down through generations, we can also get trapped by our habitual thinking just as much as—and just as erroneously as—people who maintained until recently that the earth was visibly and verifiably flat. We also get stuck in unconscious and invisible boxes that limit our ability to think in new ways.

What's needed isn't change; it is transformation. Change seeks different solutions to intractable problems. Transformation asks different questions so that we can see the problems in a new light.

DID WE WIN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION?

It is funny what a year can do.

I hate them." "Pity them, Emmon," Tosh said, "because the world they live in is small, and when it gets bigger fast, they won't know what to do.

Migration is the story of my body

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

Would you realize what Revolution is, call it Progress; and would you realize what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been.

Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.