Quotes About Change

Farrell Kafji, who complained loudly that he had landed in the middle of a seventeenth-century field. 'And fields then are exactly like fields right now!' he shouted. 'I could've gone down to Forsyth Park if I wanted to see a field!

People went around warning you: Never imagine you can change someone, for people NEVER CHANGE. Then they talked about leopards and spots. Forgetting altogether about chameleons. Or that octopus, which lives on the ocean floor and can change its shape to become a stingray, a sea anemone, or even an eel

and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime." Jacob Bronowski in Science and Human Values

Freedom is valued in a culture that wants to encourage dissent and to stimulate originality and independence. It belongs to a society which is open to change, and which esteems the agent of change, the individual, above its own peace of mind.

The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself as an instrument for change. Otherwise, what are you creating for? If the world is perfectly all right the way it is, you have no place in it. The creative personality thinks of the world as a canvas for change and of himself as a divine agent of change.

we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.

Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others

In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.

Un candado no puede ser abierto dos veces. Lo que se considera retorno no es tal. Nunca hay retorno. Hay avance o cambio. Lo que se piensa que es caída no lo es; el único que cae o que cree caer es el pensamiento de caer, nunca el ser.

initiatives.

intervention

We all lose our looks eventually. Better develop your character and interest in life.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

It's like you miss a year of your life,

Les vieilles habitudes sont comme une rigole creusée par l'eau, et qui, ensuite, en dirige le cours; et l'on répète les mêmes erreurs.

Il est toujours fort difficile de dire à quel moment une crainte s'est transformée en certitude et quelle mince donnée supplémentaire a changé la face des choses. On se sentait encore soutenu par un petit souffle d'espérance, dont on ne s'avouait pas le progressif affaiblissement. Et puis, passé un certain cap, on s'aperçoit qu'il n'est plus là et que l'on s'en doutait depuis un bon moment.

The reality is not always our destiny.

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. . . All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it... all the changes, good or evil, were first brought about by words.