Quotes About Change

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

Change is the very fabric of our time.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

As sci-fi writer Theodore Sturgeon said, 90 percent of everything is crap. But science fiction has not been forgiven for its crap. The reason is that science fiction inherently distrusts the 'eternal verities' on which literature graduates base their doctoral dissertations. Literature departments were uncomfortable with that. But things change.

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn't 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.

familiar process before they can acknowledge how comprehensive their problem is. First, they deny that there's something wrong with their life. Then they intensify their efforts to follow the old failing plan. Then they try to treat themselves with some new thrill: They have an affair, drink more, or start doing drugs. Only when all this fails do they admit that they need to change the way they think about life.

New is America's oldest tradition.

How do you teach a classroom of Sybils who are breaking apart and reforming right in front of you?

Then, from the most structured and supervised childhood in human history, you get spit out after graduation into the least structured young adulthood in human history.

Abilene had gone from boomtown to Bible Belt, from whorehouses to schoolmarms, without any of the intervening phases.

Justice William 0. Douglas once told President Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Any government bureau more than ten years old should be abolished, because after that it becomes more concerned with its image than with its mission.

Politicians are like weather vanes. Our job is to make the wind blow.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

Asked why he thought Florian had left, Wolfgang Flür's reply was terse, but probably accurate: 'Too old, not necessary any more, enough money, especially no more flying: he was tired of all that. I think he should have done it earlier, much earlier.

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Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shackAnd you may find yourself in another part of the worldAnd you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobileAnd you may find yourself in a beautiful house… with a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourself, "Well… how did I get here?"

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife And you may ask yourself, "Well... how did I get here?" Letting the days go by...

Music eats its young and gives birth to a new hybrid creature.

Music as social glue, as a self-empowering change agent, is maybe more profound than how perfectly a specific song is composed or how immaculately tight a band is.

With the advent of recorded music in 1878, the nature of the places in which music was heard changed.