Quotes About Change

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Albert Einstein said that a problem cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created it.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

On the day I learned of Vati's death, my outlook on life changed profoundly. I had discovered that a good day could never be trusted to remain good, indeed, a good day would inevitably lead to disaster, and I must always be prepared for the worst. The glass was now half empty.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

I'm not running away, I'm moving on.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

The immediate future is not in the hands of our first Negro President. It is in our hands, for better or for worse.

Our own domestic Negro situation is another thing.

The modern world, he thought resentfully, prepares you very poorly for the tests it puts you to.

Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.

I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.

Forget for a while that you have glasses on your nose and autumn in your heart.

Youth isn't the problem—it'll pass with the years…