Quotes About Change

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.

With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings and arrows of outrageous mechanism.

No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.

political instrument adapted to the new times

de la necesidad lampedusiana de que todo cambie para que todo siga igual.

El teatro hoy es más político que nunca solo por el hecho de seguir siendo teatro...

este país el sector que más creció en los últimos veinte años no es la tecnología, no es el software; es la desigualdad, que creció más que en ningún otro momento de nuestra historia.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

The effect of emotional venting is to sustain an unsatisfactory status quo. Most people think the opposite, that complaining is part of an effort to change an unsatisfying situation. Nope. Complaining lets off pressure so that we neither explode with frustration nor feel compelled to take the often risky steps of openly opposing a difficult person or situation. Keeping emotional pressure tolerably low doesn't change problematic circumstances but rather perpetuates them.

Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.

I mean how many decades do I keep trying to fix something before I realize the trying to fix it may be the problem. It's one of those things that I wish I had really understood better when I was a lot younger. And if I had it would have turned my outward search for what would make me fit better in the world, to an inward one of asking, what do I want?

Normalize cruelty and cheating and mix it with power. Legitimate power works the best. Stir in as much chaos as possible and before you know it, old norms are gone, and everyone is off kilter.

The next step after this is applying that state of being—that thin sliver of sliding into place that feels wrong and so right at the same time, that makes you question your sanity—to your green lights. Feel your way through them instead

the past is done and despite how much human beings like to dig it back up, the past cannot predict the future. It can only make it harder to clearly see the next path.

Been here ever since, and it ain't all that different from home. S'long as I ignore the differences, hear?

Or you can choose grace. To let it all go in one fell swoop. There will be no middle ground here." He waved his arm and shook his shaggy head, letting out a tired sigh. "But I will offer this. Instead of wondering what was lost, take a moment and wonder what could be gained. What could still be lost if you don't let go.

the future is always more important than the past.

What if you do what you think is right, for yourself or someone else, but it doesn't make a difference." - Susanna Quiner

Was every good change made in the world the result of successful bullying? I wondered.

Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise.

Cats come and go without ever leaving.