Quotes About Change

Kearney did not go as far in geographic distance as he did in mode of livelihood: although he only went across San Francisco Bay to Alameda County, he went much further in the change of his career, for this erstwhile drayman ended his days as a well-to-do commodity market speculator'4 -the very sort of thing he had so ardently attacked in speech after speech delivered to cheering working men in the sandlots of San Francisco.

Western Civil War of Incorporation

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. ... If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

changing code or behavior is not a big issue, it just needs to be released, but revising data structures can involve a huge effort in transforming the old version into a newer one

Design is a discovery process, as we implement we discover new information, often impossible to know up front. By accepting that design is an ongoing and empirical process in a forever changing world, we learn that the design process must be flexible and ongoing too. Clinging onto your original designs and trying to force them through is only going to end up with one result so you need to learn to understand that it will never look like that.

All architecture is design but not all design is architecture. Architecture represents the significant design decisions that shape a system, where significant is measured by cost of change. (Grady Booch)

the twentieth century.

You don't marry one person you marry three . the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being married to you.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

The best thing you can do with your ideas is to always be ready to abandon them.

men with guns stole our future by killing the best of our leaders, again and again—in one single tragic year, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. And day after day, death upon death, they steal our dreams by killing the people we love.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

He gazed at the table. "After Vietnam," he said at length, "I wasn't always present. That was hard, particularly on your mother. Yet there was no way out but forward. After a while, the past recedes." Meg was surprised; for her father to mention Mary McCarran was even rarer than his allusions to Vietnam.

He was no longer that boy; she was no longer that girl. But both still lived within them, she understood, and they were meeting again, deepened by all that had happened to them since, the realization of all they had missed.

public protest of the direction his party is taking. Convention

Neuroscientists know now that bad habits have a physical existence in the structure of the brain; they become the default circuits when we are faced with temptation.

Across thirty-two cities worldwide, people in 2006 were walking an average 10 percent faster than they were in 1994.

Like alcoholism, depression is a lifelong condition that can be cured only by a deliberate effort to change our selves.

Science knows now that our brain does not simply store our experiences. Each experience changes the brain, structurally, electrically, chemically. The brain becomes the experience. If we are careful about the experiences we give our brains, we can change the brain itself.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Habitability is the characteristic of source code that enables programmers, coders, bug-fixers, and people coming to the code later in its life to understand its construction and intentions and to change it comfortably and confidently.

The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.