Quotes About Change

Accept what you can't change, and change what you can. It's easier than you think.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

I don't know what will be left of me fifty years from now. I suspect that all films will have aged terribly and that the cinema probably won't even exist anymore. My guess is that the final disappearance of cinemas will take place around the year 2020, so in fifty years' time, there will be nothing but television.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

If more people were actively engaged in advocating their positions I think we'd have a better society.

I don't miss politics.

If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative.

The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity," is how I explain it to Sarah.

It's very simple: If Buddhism is about awakening, people should be waking up. If it's not about awakening, they should change the name.

Why is everyone seeking and no one finding? Because they're not seeking truth or growth or change, they're seeking peace of mind. The rest is just dressing.

You go forward when you can't stay where you are. That's the process.

The belief that something is wrong is the fire under the ass of humanity

Life has only one form: forgetting,

Life is a series of abandonings.

I tend to be a plotter, just because I do have to write an outline of the book for my publisher, and I like to have an idea of where I'm headed. That said, I don't treat the outline as cast in stone, and I often get better ideas as I write, so the outline is a living thing. What often drives change is when I start writing a particular character and she or he asserts themselves more strongly than I thought they would.

often started in a different hemisphere.

Oftentimes, the whole reason we became programmers in the first place is because we wanted to move beyond being a mere player and change the game, control it, modify its parameters, maybe even create our own games.

If it ain't broken then lets damn well try and break it.

We humans co-evolve with our tools. We change the tools, and the tools change us.

The physical book really has had a 500-year run. It's probably the most successful technology ever. It's hard to come up with things that have had a longer run. If Gutenberg were alive today, he would recognize the physical book and know how to operate it immediately. Given how much change there has been everywhere else, what's remarkable is how stable the book has been for so long. But no technology, not even one as elegant as the book, lasts forever.

Strip malls are a symbol for marginal, low-experience stores that nobody really wants to go to. Over time, say within 10 years, maybe 15 percent of commerce will move online. Will that have a big impact on the physical world? Absolutely. What will that effect be? It will force stores to get better. The ones that don't get better will go by the wayside.