Quotes About Change

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet.

Ron Dellums, the Oakland boy who tried to stop

Richard Reeves

Happiness is not yesterday; it's from now on.

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change.

the utilitarian test for whether the suggestion made proves to be "good in the way of belief." Granted that hearing what such a being has to say may change your wants, nevertheless you test those new wants and that purported truth in the same way: by living them, trying them out in everyday life, seeing whether they make you and yours happier. Suppose that a source which you believe to

Interesting philosophy is rarely an examination of the pros and cons of a thesis. Usually it is, implicitly or explicitly, a contest between an entrenched vocabulary which has become a nuisance and a half-formed new vocabulary which vaguely promises great things.

There's some things even Enlightenment won't change. If you're a son-of-a-bitch before you visit the Absolute, you'll still be a son-of-bitch after.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

People sometimes get in the habit of being loyal to a mistake.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down

The rise of the bourgeoisie" is a hackneyed phrase, so much so that one historian has been moved to comment that the only historical constant is that the middle classes are always everywhere rising.

Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insan?n karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlat?ya dönüÅŸmesini engelleyen ç?lg?n zaman deneyimi aras?nda bir çat??ma yaratt?.

Kurumlarda iÅŸleyen veya bireyin yaÅŸad??? zaman, eskinin demir kafesinden kurtulmuÅŸ olsa da, yukar?dan aÅŸa??ya iÅŸleyen yeni bir denetime ve gözetime tabidir. EsnekliÄŸin zaman? yeni bir iktidar?n zaman?d?r. Esneklik düzensizlik yarat?r, ancak s?n?rlamalardan kurtulmam?z? saÄŸlamaz.

Night and morning are making promises to each other which neither will be able to keep.

the more that sin is seen, the more it is hated, and therefore it is less. Dust particles are in a room before the sun shines, but they only appear then.

Christ as a new conqueror changes the fundamental laws of the old Adam and establishes a government of his own.