Quotes About Change

That's nuts," Niamh said. "That's evolution

It can take five years for a piece of news to go from one end of space to the other, and the story's going to change in the telling. So you don't listen to the story. You listen to the pattern. And right now, the pattern is, weird fucking shit going on with the Flow.

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

His progress was more lateral than forward.

But imagine you're a tapeworm, and then suddenly you're Goethe. It's like that.

I am also aware that ideals are hard to practice, especially when they are new.

Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses.

Your friend Leon certainly didn't join to be in the military - he can't stand the people we will protect. People join because they're not ready to die and they don't want to be old. They join because life on Earth isn't interesting past a certain age. Or they join to see someplace new before they die. That's why I joined, you know. I'm not joining to fight or be young again. I just want to see what it's like to be somewhere else .

sooner or later, everything simply becomes daily life. When Haden's first struck, it was the most important news story of the century. Everyone knew it. Everyone felt it. But then it just… became part of the fabric of the American story, day in and day out.

How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

the most important days of your existence don't always announce themselves in obvious ways.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time. You

What I fear is diminishment, and subtle change, and the moment in which a life without you becomes a sustainable thought.

It's a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life. I signed.

She shrugged. "I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me." Her

I don't mind getting old." "I didn't mind getting old when I was young, either," I said. "It's the being old now that's getting to me.

They are still in rebellion. You don't win a rebellion by default.

It's easier to be the aspirational leader when the thing you're building doesn't exist. But now it exists, and you're not aspirational anymore. Now you're just the chief bureaucrat. Bureaucrats don't inspire awe.

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Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough

The only people who cling to tradition at the expense of real people are sad, angry dwellers in the darkness who don't even understand how pathetic they are, clutching and grasping at the things they remember without ever understanding that the world was never that simple to begin with. The future is bright, it is shining, and it belongs to everyone.

The Harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

Institutions designed for push cannot easily accommodate pull.

Institutional leaders will need to seek out "reverse mentors" among (often younger) individuals who can help them understand and master edge practices.