Quotes About Change

You can watch the hour hand, Mimi finds, hold your eyes on it all around the circle of the clock, and never once see it move.

And what do all good stories do? They kill you a little. They turn you into something you weren't.

He can't remember when the Web wasn't here. That's the job of consciousness, to turn Now into Always, to mistake what is for what was meant to be.

And there's only the narrowest window of time in which to really see them, before these things that never were turn into things that have always been.

Life is nothing but mutual infection. And every infecting message changes the message it infects.

real joy consists of knowing that human wisdom counts less than the shimmer of beeches in a breeze. as certain as weather coming from the west, the things people know for sure will change. there is no knowing for a fact. the only dependable things are humility and looking.

SIH HSUIN BECOMES WINSTON MA: a simple engineering fix. In myths, people turn into all kinds of things. Birds, animals, trees, flowers, rivers. Why not an American named Winston?

When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

pronounced. Spontaneous improvement no longer seemed likely. Behavioral therapy had

The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Nothing will be the same. The spruces answer: Nothing has ever been the same. We're all doomed, the man thinks. We have always all been doomed. But things are different this time. Yes. You're here.

L'amore è un ciclo di feedback dal desiderio alla condivisione, alla perdita. Un moto anti-hebbiano: le attivazioni si fanno sempre più fiacche. (p.243)

legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.

La nostra vita a U. non somigliava affatto ai nostri ricordi. U. era cambiata in tutto, fuorché nei particolari. (p. 225)

Deforestation: a bigger changer of climate than all of transportation put together. Twice as much carbon in the falling forests than in all the atmosphere. But that's for another trial.

He'll spend his life in the service of an immense conspiracy, launched from the Valley of Heart's Delight, to take over the human brain and change it more than anything since writing.

Life could crash and spin out, pretty much overnight.

Time alters what can be owned, and who may do the owning.

The accumulated possessions of generations disperse like wind-borne pollen.

Nothing anyone can do for anyone, except to recall: We are every second being born.

The past tries to kill her—all the people they were or had hoped to be.

The people inside these changed lives differ from us only in degree. Each of us has inhabited these baffling islands, if only briefly.

Does it bother you, to be such a destroyer of productivity?" Neelay gazes out on a patch of mountain shaved bare half a century ago. "I don't think . . . It might not be so bad, to destroy a little productivity.