Quotes About Change

We can have an American president who does not govern with negativism and fear of the future.

In my first three years as CEO, we wound up changing out about half of my staff members, replacing them with leaders who bought in strongly to One Honeywell.

by removing the 10p band on non-savings income'. Here, what looked like a simplification of the tax system was in fact the abolition of the 10p tax rate that Brown had so proudly introduced when he first became Chancellor. This change meant that someone earning £10,000 a year would lose £223 a year from the abolition of the 10p tax rate and gain just £50 a year from the reduction in income tax from 22p to 20p

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

Everything changed after AIDS," Dr. Molnár had just explained to him. "From then on, blood was more dangerous than shit.

As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.

The only languages which do not change are dead ones.

This is a lesson everyone who studies language eventually learns. You cannot stop language change. You may not like it ; you may regret the arrival of new forms and the passing of old ones but there is not the slightest thing you can do about it. Language change is as natural as breathing. It is one of the linguistic facts of life.

Old attitudes die hard, of course, and there will still be those who mourn the passing of the days when a single accent ruled the British airwaves. But they are a steadily shrinking minority.

Labeling yourself is not only self-defeating, it is irrational. Your self cannot be equated with any one thing you do. Your life is a complex and ever-changing flow of thoughts, emotions, and actions. To put it another way, you are more like a river than a statue. Stop trying to define yourself with negative labels—they

You must first consider that a human life is an ongoing process that involves a constantly changing physical body as well as an enormous number of rapidly changing thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Your life therefore is an evolving experience, a continual flow. You are not a thing; that's why any label is constricting, highly inaccurate, and global.

There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

Apocalyptic shows us what we're not seeing. It can't be composed or spoken by the powers that be, because they are the sustainers of "the way things are" whose operation justifies itself by crowning itself as "the way things ought to be" and whose greatest virtue is in being "realistic." Thinking through what we mean by "realistic" is where apocalyptic begins.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

We do not experience time flowing, or passing. What we experience are differences between our present perceptions and our present memories of past perceptions. We interpret those differences, correctly, as evidence that the universe changes with time. We also interpret them, incorrectly, as evidence that our consciousness, or the present, or something, moves through time.

Good political institutions are those that make it as easy as possible to detect whether a ruler or policy is a mistake, and to remove rulers or policies without violence when they are.

An optimistic civilization is open and not afraid to innovate, and is based on traditions of criticism.

We shall always be faced with the problem of how to plan for an unknowable future.

knowledge has the unique ability to take aim at a distant target and utterly transform it while having scarcely any effect on the space between.

As the ancient philosopher Heraclitus remarked, 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

But one thing that all conceptions of the Enlightenment agree on is that it was a rebellion, and specifically a rebellion against authority in regard to knowledge.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

one thing that all conceptions of the Enlightenment agree on is that it was a rebellion, and specifically a rebellion against authority in regard to knowledge.