Quotes About Change

The great miscalculation of the age is the idea that businesses have to make a choice: to become profitable, or to become platforms for change. This is not the case.

Similarly, when it is not the past that we are studying, but some set of phenomena relating to a principle still active, we expect to be told whenever a new piece of evidence may emerge, in the light of which it is quite possible that the whole elaborate structure of our conclusions will have to be changed.

In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.

Det som hadde begynt som en feber to år tidligere, var nå blitt nesten kaldt som is.

Mens de samme trivielle tingene skjer daglig, roterer verden med store omdreininger.

We teach aspirational ethics. What I teach my students is, You're born heroic. I go into these animal studies, and heroism is actually in our nature. What you have to do is make sure that the system doesn't change you, that our educational system doesn't teach you to be willfully blind and to forget your aspirations, because that's the default position.

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

losses are necessary because we grow by losing and leaving and letting go."6

The Lord, even at the [5] time of the Pharaohs, had this right, for in Scripture He says to this monarch: "And therefore have I raised you, that I may show MY POWER in you, and my name may be spoken of throughout all the earth."314 Century has followed on century since the Most High has spoken those words, and since then His conduct has undergone no [10] change, for He is always using His creatures as instruments to carry on His work in souls.

new peace and strength in my heart: "Life is your barque not your home!

Sometimes the best, the most prudent, the most charitable thing that we can do is to give these people a wide berth. But when we have to deal with such people, we need to give up the futile goal of trying to talk them out of their negativity (or to beat it out of them, as the protagonist of Cheever's story tried to do with his brother Lawrence), and simply love them as best we can, without expecting them to change.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.

Y, además, los mejores sentimientos acaban por desgastarse, todo se degrada.

certainly, no one in the early days of container shipping foresaw that this American-born industry would come to be dominated by European and Asian firms, as the U.S.-flag ship lines, burdened by a legacy of protected markets and heavy regulation, proved unable to compete in a fast-changing world.

Il y a des premiers baisers qui font basculer votre vie.

Prekasno je samo kada se nešto više ne može promijeniti.

Pam?enje je neobi?an umjetnik, mijenja boje života, briše ono što je nezanimljivo i ?uva samo ono najljepše i najuzbudljivije.

Como dice una canción, me ha rozado el alma y me la ha cambiado, ¿cómo perdonarle el haber hecho nacer en mí las ganas de querer y de que me quieran?

Il faut croire que nous, les Polonais, avions la maladie de vouloir changer de nationalité.

Una pesadilla es un sueño que ha envejecido mal

dime por qué nuestras grandes naciones pueden enviar legiones de soldados a la guerra, pero son incapaces de hacer lo mismo cuando se trata de salvar los niños (...). Alguna cosa ha cambiado. Para mí vivir ya no es un derecho, se ha convertido en un privilegio

Hur fick ni modet att våga lämna indien? - Frågan är felformulerad. Det är rädsla som får folk att fly, modet är det som driver oss framåt. Får oss tro på ett annat liv. Mod, det är att hoppas.

welcoming the gradual evolution of passion into tenderness.