Quotes About Change

But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

They don't get any skinnier after you marry them.

They stood there for a while, with no sound but the flapping of the flag. "It's not that simple, Kiowa." "Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa

Glass had come to view the sea, which he once embraced as synonymous with freedom, as no more than the confining parameters of small ships. He resolved to turn a new direction.

But the ledger had two sides. It was a relief not to worry any longer about puffing up his chest for the benefit of others. He found himself treasuring small glimpses of life that as a younger man he might have galloped right past. And there were still plenty of ridgelines to keep him wondering.

Still, he thought, there was no luck at all in standing still. The

this one beach holds the story of a world always changing, always on the move.

Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

When these pocket computers started getting common, old people like me catastrophized about how bad it was going to be, but we were wrong. It's much worse. We've been looking at each other's faces for a million years. But now you don't see faces anymore. At night on the sidewalks of Toronto people walk around in the dark looking down into tiny lamplit rooms they hold in their hands.

At first I was surprised by how hard it was for our church to navigate all this.

Our grandparents' "normal" has become our "almost impoverished.

My meth lab tends to explode. I move to a new one like a hermit crab.

I write about cats. Cats, when you read this, write about me. Be the change you want to see.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

How dare I complain. I was born in the right time and right place to the right family. I met a man and we built a life together. Yet sometimes even the most charmed existence can change in the blink of an eye, or turn on the length of an eyelash. One moment of indecision. A cancer cell. A rogue gene. A wrong turn. A red light. A drunk driver. A cruel piece of misfortune.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

His freckles have faded but must riot every summer across his nose and cheeks.

there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it's only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.