Quotes About Change

The only thing worse than the thought it may all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.

How do we change - within moments, the whole form of our habits and dispositions may become alien to us, and we almost cannot remember what we were.

It's important to see who you're growing into and who you used to be.

Pero siempre hay tiempo de cambiar. Siempre hay tiempo. Hasta que ya no hay.

Inside the wooden box was a strip of microfilm that, when unrolled, would stretch over a hundred feet long. It contained hardly any words: just lines and dots and ancient monastic symbols in complicated arrangements. The Russians hoped it would help change the course of the war.

people were moving in droves into the city to get new manufacturing jobs. Apartments that once had housed a single family and their servants, surrounded by their comfortable settees, their ferns, and their china, now were broken up and subdivided, with each room housing a whole family.

The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.

People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.

Parece reconhecer-se muito mais facilmente o fogo depois de domesticado.

Hope is progress

Many times happiness is just around the corner, on that corner that we never dare to turn.

las memorias se convierten en pensamientos y se manifiestan. Por eso es muy importante saber que en realidad las personas aparecen en nuestra vida para darnos otra oportunidad.

En cuanto formamos una opinión o un juicio, nos estancamos; nos esclavizamos.

Muchas veces la felicidad está a la vuelta de la esquina, esa esquina que nunca nos atrevemos a doblar.

And now again the story of Tripoli changes. But whatever the outcome, she will have still her limpid skies, her air like wine, and a climate where it is a sin to acknowledge an ache or a pain, old age or unhappiness.

Change is the key that unlocks the door to growth and excitement in any organization. The leader's ability to inspire a culture of change can make or break their success. Tomorrow comes at us with lightning speed, and our competitive advantage is a fleeting thing. Bill Gates puts it this way: "In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa.

How short lived knowledge is. When I was 20 I knew it all: now at 70 I can't understand a thing

Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.

Cada estação da vida é uma edição, que corrige a anterior, e que será corrigida também, até a edição definitiva, que o editor dá de graça aos vermes.

I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

Man is at his most stubborn when his religious, socioeconomic, or political beliefs need change.

Nineteen months ago, he mourned, partridges were here. Nineteen months ago the open pine forest was compassionate. What rare concentrated tragedies will have occurred within another nineteen months—not here, for this place has bred a tragedy greater than any recorded in the Nation's past—but elsewhere, all over the South, through back roads and on wharves and in legislative rooms, in foundries which rust because the fires have gone out?