Quotes About Change

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Willpower alone is not enough to bring about this change; start by realizing that you cannot do this alone. If you are a person of faith, use that connection to help you change.

had the wrong notion that to be a Christian requires that we believe the best no matter what. That it's unkind to draw boundaries. That it's noble and commendable to stay in a relationship no matter what. I no longer believe that.

No desarrollaremos respuestas nuevas hasta que desarrollemos pensamientos nuevos. Es por eso que resulta crucial renovar nuestra mente con nuevos pensamientos.

I am a woman whose identity has been changed by coming face to face with the One who has the power to completely transform me.

Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Consider, and you will find that almost all the transactions of the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing for consulship?yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.

Everyday starts as a repetition of the previous day & ends so with the hope that tomorrow will be no different.

Having babies is fun, but babies grow up into people.

Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.

Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance.

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

When I was little, she thought, I wanted nothing except to stop travelling. I wanted time for each new thing, each new feeling, to be held properly in suspension until it could be joined by the next. Given the chance I could easily hold all those beautiful things together. I could be like a box in which they would be held new forever. Instead, everything aged and changed. People too.

I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape…. If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.

Retire from work, but not from life.

Like it or not, the marketplace isn't stable. The world isn't stable. It's full of evolution, upheaval, and surprise.

You can go extinct, or broke. But here we are on the edge of chaos because that's where, on average, we all do the best.

M. Mitchell Waldrop

The real significance of computing was to be found not in this gadget or that gadget, but in how the technology was woven into the fabric of human life—how computers could change the way people thought, the way they created, the way they communicated, the way they worked together, the way they organized themselves, even the way they apportioned power and responsibility.

By the summer of 1972, says Thacker, "it was personal-computer time, just like it was railroad time in the eighteen-fifties.

Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

To innovate does not necessarily mean to expand; very often it means to simplify.