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Quotes About Change

Today we love what tomorrow we hate, today we seek what tomorrow we shun, today we desire what tomorrow we fear, nay, even tremble at the apprehensions of.
~ Daniel Defoe
I'm sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It's just that my band needs a real bass player now. We're not a joke band anymore. Okay, sweetie?' That was how Petra Dostoyevsky fired me.
~ Unknown
What if this isn't China's war?" the voice asked. "What if this is just a war with the Soviets? Can you change the plan?" "Well, yeah," said General Power resignedly, "we can, but I hope nobody thinks of it, because it would really screw up the plan.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
Do you ever feel like the Redcoats?
~ Daniel Ellsberg
This mortal predicament did not begin with Donald J. Trump, and it will not end with his departure. The obstacles to achieving these necessary changes are posed not so much by the majority of the American public—though many in recent years have shown dismaying manipulability—but by officials and elites in both parties and by major institutions that consciously support militarism, American hegemony, and arms production and sales.
~ Daniel Ellsberg
I am currently learning how to work the blasted technology of this infuriating dominant culture. If this was the neolithic i'd still be all boss!
~ Unknown
Evolve the Brain: The Science of Changing Your Mind
~ Unknown
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. ERIC HOFFER
~ Unknown
Tiny habits are the smallest things you can do that will make the biggest difference in your life.
~ Unknown
All the earth is a grave, and nought escapes it; nothing is so perfect that it does not fall and disappear. The rivers, brooks, fountains and waters flow on, and never return to their joyous beginnings; they hasten on to the vast realms of Tlaloc, and the wider they spread between their marges the more rapidly do they mould their own sepulchral urns. That which was yesterday is not to-day; and let not that which is to-day trust to live to-morrow.
~ Unknown
the future is fundamentally different than it appears through the prospectiscope.
~ Daniel Gilbert
At some point between our high chairs and our rocking chairs, we learn about later.
~ Daniel Gilbert
within a couple of weeks even earthquake survivors return to their normal level of unfounded optimism.
~ Daniel Gilbert
The things we do when we expect our lives to continue are naturally and properly different than the things we might do if we expected them to end abruptly. We go easy on the lard and tobacco, smile dutifully at yet another of our supervisor's witless jokes, read books like this one when we could be wearing paper hats and eating pistachio macaroons in the bathtub, and we do each of these things in the charitable service of the people we will soon become.
~ Daniel Gilbert
several months had elapsed and it would
~ Unknown
It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we die round
~ Daniel Gottlieb
As the waters of life wash over us, we lose our sharp corners, and that can be good or bad...trust your instincts, remember your 'secret pacts' and reclaim the wisdom you have always had
~ Daniel Gottlieb
If you fight the right battle, in the right way, the outcome can change not only your life, but also the lives of others.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
And then I realized that whatever we did, it wouldn't feel like it did before.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
Love changes everything.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
I think we are born square and we die round. As waters of life wash over us, we lose our sharp corners, and that can be good; we take on surprising, satisfying new shapes.
~ Daniel Gottlieb
Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much.
~ Daniel Greenberg
Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.
~ Daniel Greenberg
The Revolution of our time will be made from the bottom up— or it will not be made at all.
~ Unknown