Quotes About Change

Yuval Noah Harari

Since 1789, despite numerous wars, revolutions and upheavals, humans have not managed to conceive of any new value.

Historically, corporations were not the ideal vehicle for leading social and political revolutions. A real revolution sooner or later demands sacrifices that corporations, their employees and their shareholders are not willing to make.

At the end of the day, humankind won't abandon the liberal story, because it doesn't have any alternative. People may give the system an angry kick in the stomach but, having nowhere else to go, they will eventually come back.

Consider a resident of Berlin, born in 1900 and living to the ripe age of one hundred. She spent her childhood in the Hohenzollern Empire of Wilhelm II; her adult years in the Weimar Republic, the Nazi Third Reich and Communist East Germany; and she died a citizen of a democratic and reunified Germany. She had managed to be a part of five very different sociopolitical systems, though her DNA remained exactly the same.

Buying cars and writing novels do not change our biochemistry.

Under the right circumstances myths can change rapidly.

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths – by telling different stories.

nourish the ground in which wheat grew. The body of Homo sapiens had not evolved for such tasks. It was adapted to climbing apple trees and running after gazelles, not to clearing rocks and carrying water buckets. Human spines, knees, necks and arches paid the price. Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias.

We hardly notice how ubiquitous our stuff is until we have to move it to a new house.

Studying history aims to loosen the grip of the past. It enables us to turn our head this way and that, and begin to notice possibilities that our ancestors could not imagine, or didn't want us to imagine. By observing the accidental chain of events that led us here, we realise how our very thoughts and dreams took shape – and we can begin to think and dream differently. Studying history will not tell us what to choose, but at least it gives us more options.

Rather, capitalism won the Cold War because distributed data processing works better than centralised data processing, at least in periods of accelerating technological change.

There is absolutely no proof that human well-being inevitably improves as history rolls along. There is no proof that cultures that are beneficial to humans must inexorably succeed and spread, while less beneficial cultures disappear

Most important of all will be the ability to deal with change, learn new things, and preserve your mental balance in unfamiliar situations.

ever since the Cognitive Revolution Homo sapiens has been able to revise its behaviour rapidly in accordance with changing needs.

What's the point of making predictions if they can not change anything?

As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new technologies and the settlement of alien habitats resulted from genetic mutations and environmental pressures more than from cultural initiatives.

Buda enseñó que las tres realidades básicas del universo son que todo cambia sin cesar, que nada tiene ninguna esencia perdurable y que nada es completamente satisfactorio.

One cannot remain the same. Art is a mirror which should show many reflections, and the artist should not always show the same face, or the face becomes a mask.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

Move forward, not backward." That was a favorite quote from a book she'd read. Just another way of saying there was no sense dwelling on the past, but less clichéd.

Esse é você. Ao agir de forma verdadeira, você estará se valorizando e logo notará que as coisas começarão a mudar e as pessoas, a tratá-lo melhor. Várias portas se abrirão em sua vida profissional e as relações familiares serão mais amistosas.

Pre-order is the new order