Quotes About Change

Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.

I have been struck by how families, corporations, and other kinds of institutions are constantly trying to cure their own chronic ills through amputations, "strong medicine," transfusions, and other forms of surgery, only to find that, even when successful for the moment, the excised tumor returns several years later in "cells" that never knew the "cells" that left.

She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns, which arrived with the promptness and regularity of mail coaches.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns

I wished that adults were as capable as children of moving beyond some impasse, letting go of whatever had been intractable only hours or days ago. I envied them that ability to discard their past selves as if they were old, tattered, useless skins.

That we wouldn't be able to do. Not even if we wanted it more than anything in the world. Because once we've touched a world, it stays touched.

Herod was then near his death; but as a man lives, such does he usually die. The near prospect of eternity seldom operates in so salutary a manner on habitual sinners, as to produce in them a true and sincere change of heart.

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.

Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.

Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

L'église de tout à l'heure. Plus de tapis rouge. Ce soir, une vierge de moins.