Quotes About Change

It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them as they go, they take many away.)

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.

Love of novelties has been the shipwreck of many a soul.

Eu nu sunt ceea ce ascund, eu sunt ceea ce devin prin voin??

Citizens, the priority now is to recover trust between the Egyptian - amongst the Egyptians and to have trust and confidence in our economy and international reputation and the fact that the change that we have embarked on will carry on and there's no going back to the old days.

Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.

The greatest stories of your life won't be told from your comfort zone ! Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

I was innocent but certain, now I'm wiser but unsure.

The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...

The fog was made more beautiful by its passing, like flags in the spring; like the last drone of cicadas in a dying summer; like the brief yellow of hickories, the purple of sweetgums, in the fall. You loved most the things that passed away, that you couldn't hold on to, no matter how much you loved them.

I want to say Without temper If possible without the least sense of the heroic Without even the measured ambition to speak the truth which is only another vulgarity To say I am not what I was Indeed I was nothing and now I am at least the possibility of something and this I will defend.

Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans

The world turns, and life changes, the good old days are fantasies-just screened memories.

The NOW is your point of power! You don't have to be who you were The only way out, is in

With this generic view of mind changing as background, I teased out a number of crucial dimensions. These can serve as a checklist when one is considering candidates for mind changing:

CHANGING MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION

BEYOND SCHOOL: CHANGING ADULT MINDS THROUGH REPRESENTATIONAL REDESCRIPTION

Emotionally charged territory: What are the issues and ideas about which this person feels strongly? Should one engage these or avoid them? Can one mobilize this person around an area of strong feeling? How does one avoid the minefields that stand in the way of the desired change? Is this person motivated more by attraction to what she likes, or by fear of what she dislikes?

Both science and history are moving targets. Scholars in the twenty-first century are much more aware than those of earlier generations that scientists operate under the influence of powerful metaphors (science as exploration, discovery, documentation, thrust and counterthrust), and that both the scope and the tools of history undergo continual changes.

At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them.

Whoever spoke of a wise lover? The wiser the lover, the longer ago he stopped loving.

That was what was cruel about superficial change: it exposed what could never change.