Quotes About Change

Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

the climate is warming, the world's great ice sheets are melting, and the water is rising. This is not a speculative idea, or the hypothesis of a few wacky scientists, or a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese. Sea-level rise is one of the central facts of our time, as real as gravity. It will reshape our world in ways most of us can only dimly imagine.

We are already engineering the Earth's operating system by dumping billions of tons of greenhouse gases into it every year. We're just doing it badly. Why not get good at it?

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different.

When people have to pay more and own more of the risk themselves, their decisions about where and how they live will change.

In Virginia, much of the head-in-the-sand attitude toward climate change can be traced to the political power of the fossil fuel industry, especially Big Coal. Dominion Energy, the state's biggest electric power company, is also one of the biggest coal burners in America.

Burroughs predicted that automobiles and their drivers would eventually "seek out even the most secluded nook or corner of the forest and befoul it with noise and smoke." To him, the popularity of the Model T was the beginning of the end. He described Ford's brainchild vehicle as "a demon on wheels.

Our neocortex has invented powerful technologies that are capable of changing the entire Earth, but the human behavior that controls these world-changing technologies is often dominated by the selfish and shortsighted old brain.

Shadows of what you'll become. Silhouettes.

I'm saying that if you want a dog to drop one bone, all you gotta do is give him a new one." "And ow am I supposed to do that?" "When I want to get reporters off my back, I call in an anonymous tip that Justin Bieber is getting a crew cut on the other side of town.

Loving books is a good thing. A solid thing. Having a big collection of good ones is important, or at least it seemed that way on every single day until you moved, and then it seemed like one of the worst ideas you ever had.

You see, when you change your attitude, sparks fly in the universe. You're energized. You begin to see new possibilities. You move into action. You achieve extraordinary results. That's why I say when you change your attitude, you change your life!

your thoughts don't change, your results won't change.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. —WILLIAM JAMES

Never underestimate your power to change yourself. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing. — LADY HOLLAND

So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

You know, back in the old days adults were respected because of how wise they were, and people went to them to help settle disputes. Nowadays it's a whole different world, and half the time I wonder if grown-ups should really be in charge.

This morning he told everyone that he's a "big boy" and he's giving up his pacifier for good. Then he threw his favorite binkie in the trash. Clap clap Clap clap Well, that New Year's resolution didn't even last a full minute. suck suck suck The only person in my family who didn't come up with a resolution is my older brother, Rodrick, and that's a pity because his list should be about a mile and a half long.

And at least 95% of it was was totally outdated.

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.