Quotes About Change

Every structure is to be thought of as a particular form of equilibrium, more or less stable within its restricted field and losing its stability on reaching the limits of the field.

A response is thus a particular case of interaction between the external world and the subject, but unlike physiological interactions, which are of a material nature and involve an internal change in the bodies which are present, the responses studied by psychology are of a functional nature and are achieved at greater and greater distances in space (perception, etc.) and in time (memory, etc.) besides following more and more complex paths (reversals, detours, etc.).

Mais crains que l'avenir détruisant le passé

Things changed. Things that defined your life altered and shifted while you weren't paying attention. Sometimes you didn't even notice until you missed them.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

I was the victim of another American myth, namely that things can actually change for the better, that if you try hard enough you can transform the lead of your crummy self into some golden ideal.

cuando un número importante de personas cambia su modo de pensar y de comportarse, la cultura lo hace también, y una nueva era comienza.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

What a lopsided stumpy mess people made of a family tree these days. The last thing any of them needed was some new little sprig grafted on.

we are all aware of the consequences of climate change.

taxi companies had either never thought of these innovations or just did not to bother to introduce

creative destruction" as Schumpeter called it—

the medical profession of tomorrow will not resemble the current one at all.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Human beings stopped living in a state of nature as soon as they evolved into human beings. We've always tinkered and tampered.

Almost as if—as if he regretted that they were civilised. As if he knew that they had to be, but wished it wasn't necessary. Or that there was some other way.

He said that there was no reason to suppose that good would come out of evil: society couldn't be expected to mature overnight just because there had been a catastrophe. In fact, probably just the opposite would happen. He said that when there were shortages people always fought and became aggressive.

History was always about men. A strange and wasteful arrangement, to have had so many of them, when a few were all that was needed. No wonder the world had nearly destroyed itself.

But let us not put our sights too high. We do not have to be saviours of the world! We are simply human beings, enfolded in weakness and in hope, called together to change our world one heart at a time. (163)

Our humanity is so beautiful, but it needs to be transformed

He has gone and we are missing him ! When you get accustomed to people or places or ways of living, and then have them snatched away, it does leave an empty, gnawing sort of sensation.

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.