Quotes About Change

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

Murphy's face went through several mutations as he spoke, as if small animals were scurrying about just beneath his skin.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change.

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.

The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

[History is] petrified imagination.

I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

After the leaves have fallen, we return To a plain sense of things. It is as if We had come to an end of the imagination, Inanimate in an inert savoir.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.