Quotes About Change

I saw myself like a piece of wood floating down a river, suddenly tossed against the shore, caught in a stagnant pool.

In a domain like oncology, two things are continually changing: conventional treatments and our knowledge of what each of us can do individually to reinforce the effect of these treatments. If the circumstances change, the survival curve changes too.

Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

But you know, I don't think I would be so scared to die. I think it's like today—the end of a vacation, when you are ready to go home.

Sometimes, it strikes me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.

changes." And then we start again. It's like Groundhog Day. It may seem like you've made no progress and are starting over, but you aren't. Every repetition is different; the lessons are different because you are.

I go back, this time to a swankier neighborhood.

Of course I still want to believe him. I don't think it's simply that I am gullible, but I cannot fathom the implications of his behavior. When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

He is brilliant and wonderful and charismatic and loving when he's not using, but like every addict I have ever heard of, he becomes a stranger when he is, distant and foolish and self-destructive and broken and dangerous.

Seasoned players realized all too well that with the tweaking of a few pieces' powers of motion, it was an entirely new game.

Painting isn't dead. The novel isn't dead. They just aren't as central to the culture as they once were.

Prejudice is a shape shifter. It's very agile in taking forms that seem acceptable on the surface.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. —NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI

Religion does not own activism.

There are more than four former Christians for every convert to Christianity •

You need a backbone to enter the Church of the Serpents. You need to have the guts to shed your old skin and undergo a metamorphosis. What are you capable of becoming? What transformation lies ahead of you?

Are you a serious player, or just someone larking and larping around, and trying on different dresses as you eat your vegan pseudo-burgers – the meat without the meat, the thing without the thing? Citizens, do you want the revolution without the revolution? Well?

Are the fireworks over, or just beginning?

You against the world … Bet on the World. The world is never going to change for you. Unless you are a world-historic figure. Well, are you?

Revolutions always appear impossible in prospect and inevitable in retrospect.

The Revolution eats its own. That's the law. And the greatest heroes die with it. They always know their fate when they begin. That's their true heroism.

Age is an opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress.

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

David Sosnowski