Quotes About Change

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they'are fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave. So, lots of lonely hotel rooms, my dear.

Travelling makes a person young because he doesn't get time to get old.

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s.

From a very early time, I understood that I only learn from things I don't like. If you do things you like, you just do the same shit. You always fall in love with the wrong guy. Because there's no change. It's so easy to do things you like. But then, the thing is, when you're afraid of something, face it, go for it. You become a better human being.

I hate repetition. Even when I am home and have to buy milk, I go a different way each time to avoid having a habit of anything. Habits are really bad. So to me it is really important to live in what I call the spaces in-between. Bus stations, trains, taxis or waiting rooms in airports are the best places because you are open to destiny, you are open to everything and anything can happen.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

I've never really had a studio. A studio makes you lazy and comfortable, and you repeat yourself.

If we go for the easy way, then we never change.

You know how many friends become enemies and how many enemies become friends -- it's just changing all the time. So many people presume you are something, then they meet you and become proper friends, and the ones who really knew you can't stand it, for whatever reason.

In every life there is a moment when you can break free of taken forgranted situations and strike out in a different direction

the wind in Ukraina blows very hard and cold at this moment. But it will not always be so. And where there is love, there is always enough warmth for the human soul to thrive.

Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death.

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

Britain was the last developed country where beating schoolchildren was respectable. This was outlawed last year [1988] - by one vote in Parliament. Parents are now almost the last people left who can hit children without fear of penalty, as long as it's moderate and fitting punishment...the language of authority still derives from violence, mistakenly, tragically.

Siempre es más fácil destruir que construir. Mete más ruido en el bosque un árbol que cae que cien que están creciendo "; pag 25.

Si soy incapaz de trascender mi pasado, es difícil que pueda inventar un futuro que no sea directamente predecible desde el pasado

Un momento de reflexión, un sencillo descubrimiento pueden mover la trayectoria de nuestra vida unos humildes grados y, sin embargo, con el tiempo esta mínima desviación es capaz de conducirnos a un nuevo y apasionante destino.

Un mal hábito entra como un huésped, se une a la familia y, finalmente, se hace con el control.» El Talmud

Grandes barbaridades hemos hecho las personas en nuestro intento de adaptar la realidad a las medidas de nuestro recipiente mental.

químico en el que viven ha cambiado, responderán con cambios en su función. Estoy convencido de que los cambios físicos y las sanaciones que se ven en muchas personas después de cambiar ciertos esquemas de pensamiento, obedecen a esta transformación en la respuesta celular. Por eso es por lo que es tan importante

No jugamos a ganar, simplemente jugamos a no perder, y es esta mentalidad la que de verdad crea el juego. Nos obsesionamos en defender la idea de lo que somos en lugar de arriesgarnos a descubrir la imagen de aquello que podríamos llegar a ser.

Cuando usted reaccione de una manera que no le guste, no se juzgue ni se critique duramente, porque eso no le llevará a cambiar.

Una cosa es entender intelectualmente la necesidad de cambiar y otra muy distinta es sentirse cómodo e ilusionado con dicho cambio.

Time was, you were pretty sure that the best food was the kind that was the easiest to find. Or the kind you consume at a stadium, with a game going on in front of you. This was before everyone watched the Food Network and Top Chef and the sadistic reality shows hosted by that angry British chef who screams at his "cheftestants" until the veins in his neck bulge and his shrinking victims either cry or go to the hospital with heart troubles. Well, my friend, the game has changed.