Quotes about change
change knowledge done
In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer. Michel de Montaigne
change time disappointment
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. Markus Zusak
change prejudice easy
We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it. Mark Twain
change science next
The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next. Mark Twain
change order growth
Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek. Marianne Williamson
change giving looks
Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go. George C. Wallace
change research-and-development world
The irony here is this administration is spending more money on climate change research and development than any administration in all the rest of the industrialized world combined. Christine Todd Whitman
change men thinking
I think if I were to get as big as I could get, it does change your mind-state. I think like the little man. I think like the underdog. I don't want to change that. Chris Rock
change past self
We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves. Havelock Ellis
change progress-and-change progress
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis
change christian causes
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. Harry Emerson Fosdick
change country jobs
We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'
change wisdom past
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
change art memories
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present. George Santayana
change children persistence
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. George Santayana
change moving world
In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity. George Santayana
change believe fighting
Obviously you follow the law of the land, there are many laws I disagree with, but you follow the law. You fight to change the law, you don't break the law. I believe that's the American way. George Pataki
change creativity character
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe. George Pataki
change party answers
Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. George Orwell
change dream long
When we dream about those who are long since forgotten or dead, it is a sign that we have undergone a radical transformation and that the ground on which we live has been completely dug up: then the dead rise up, and our antiquity becomes modernity. Friedrich Nietzsche
change life-changing snakes
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Friedrich Nietzsche
change time book
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. John Ruskin
change running rainy-day
There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
change long impossible
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right. John Ruskin
change way sticks
In the final analysis, change sticks when it becomes the way we do things around here. John P. Kotter
change thinking organization
Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out. John P. Kotter
change competition next
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades. John P. Kotter
change woods morrow
To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. John Milton
change fear-of-change monarchs
Fear of change perplexes monarchs. John Milton
change art return
But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! John Milton
change nice people
It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials Noah Baumbach
change time one-day
One day spent with someone you love can change everything. Mitch Albom
change thinking people
I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change Mike White