Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stefan Zweig

Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.

Thomas Hardy

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Friedman

Something really big happened in the world's wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11. We went from a connected world to a hyperconnected world. I'm always struck that Facebook , Twitter, 4G, iPhones, iPads, ubiquitous wireless and Web-enabled cellphones, the cloud, Big Data, cellphone apps and Skype did not exist or were in their infancy a decade ago.

Thomas Friedman

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.

Thomas J. Watson

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

Thomas Adams

He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it.

Victoria Woodhull

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

Sallust

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Ronald Reagan

We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world.

Sam Levenson

Times don't change. Men do.

Rumi

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Rumi

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

Rumi

Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.

Rosa Parks

I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

Roland Gift

I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.

Susan Rice

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Griffin

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Stuart Wilde

When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.

Stuart Wilde

If you can't change everything all at once, then at least work on changing something each day. Become aggressive in your battle with the ego. You probably don't need all the things that it wants. You need hope, discipline, creative expression, love, and serenity-these are the important things. Remember, when you are balanced, one stepping stone will lead you to the next. But you will rarely see the whole journey or all the answers at once.

Stokely Carmichael

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Steve Jobs

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers…..

Steve Jobs

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

Don't settle, as with all matters of the heart you'll know when you find it

Steve Jobs

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Steve Jobs

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Steve Jobs

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Steve Jobs

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Steve Jobs

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Molly Ringwald

If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

My theory on life is that life is beautiful. Life doesn't change. You have a day, and a night, and a month, and a year. We people change - we can be miserable or we can be happy. It's what you make of your life