Quotes About Change

Cada invento de la modernidad nos llega como sacralizado por la idea de que toda novedad supone un avance. Nadie duda que los autos de hoy son mejores que los autos de ayer: pocos piensan que la profileración de los autos está cambiando por un plato de orgullo y comodidad el oxígeno el planeta y el derecho a la capa de ozono

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Let us see what love can do.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

This century hasn't got the lock on insanity.

for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by

for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by a

Chris explained. Beginning on the day after Regan's birthday—and following Howard's failure to call—she had noticed a sudden and dramatic change in her daughter's behavior and disposition. Insomnia. Quarrelsome. Fits of temper. Kicked things. Threw things. Screamed. Wouldn't eat. In addition, her energy seemed abnormal. She was constantly moving, touching, turning

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

The trouble is, these four domains of behavior coexist in all of us. A person who is risk-averse in one situation will turn reckless in another. All it takes is a changed reference point.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.

One of the many insights of Carl Rogers was that when people feel unacceptable they are immobilized, unable to change. It is, paradoxically, when people experience acceptance that they are freed to change.

This review also pointed to six common components of effective brief treatment (cf. Miller & Sanchez, 1994), summarized by the acronym FRAMES: Feedback of personal status relative to norms Responsibility for personal change Advice to change Menu of options from which to choose in pursuing change Empathic counselor style Support for self-efficacy What began as an interest in motivation for treatment had broadened now to focusing on motivation for change.

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change.

client openness versus defensiveness, change talk versus sustain talk, is very much a product of the therapeutic relationship. "Resistance" and motivation occur in an interpersonal context.

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

There are two kinds of fools: one says, "This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better.

Ah! I intended never never to grow old … Listen: New Year's Bell!

Gone hath the Spring, with all its flowers, and gone the Summer's pomp and show, and Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the Winter's

every time the brain calculates the area of a rectangle, or sight-reads a piece of music, or tests an experimental hypothesis, the neurons involved are chemically changed to make it easier to travel the same path again. Kandel's research seems to have identified that repetition forms the chains that Polanyi called tacit knowing, and that James Watt called "the correct modes of reasoning.

A basic rule of history is that the inevitable eventually happens.