Quotes About Change

Imposible mencionar a San Ángel sin recordar tiempos que pasaron y que, como las golondrinas de Bécquer, no volverán.

There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture…. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

The revolution is not a tea party.

War can only be abolished by war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.

Their first discussion began with Huang Di inquiring, "I've heard that in the days of old everyone lived one hundred years without showing the usual signs of aging. In our time, however, people age prematurely, living only fifty years. Is this due to a change in the environment, or is it because people have lost the correct way of life?

Es difícil librarte de tu pasado.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

Thus what strikes me today is less the partly illusory, subjective nature of the impression of general euphoria that I felt in that period than the certainty that it is gone forever.

So on my fiftieth birthday, deep within myself I had but one wicked wish—for something would tear me away from all these guarantees and comforts, that would necessitate my not merely continuing, but my starting anew." When he wrote those lines in 1941, Zweig had already decided to kill himself,

giving life back to an adolescent who would otherwise disappear forever:

The old" corresponded to a social class, a bit like "the young" does today.

La migración, con todas sus fatigas, sus peligros y sus tragedias, se inscribe en la misma perspectiva. La esperanza, por muy ilusoria que a menudo demuestre ser, ordena la fuga hacia adelante. La migración no se identifica con la felicidad,