Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Sontag

The felt unreliability of human experience brought about by the inhuman acceleration of historical change has led every sensitive modern mind to the recording of some kind of nausea, of intellectual vertigo.

Susan Sontag

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Susan Sontag

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

Tryon Edwards

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Richard Davidson

We can change the brain by changing the mind.

Rick Wright

In one fell swoop we can now see the same mental health benefits of marriage for same sex couples as heterosexual couples, the main reason there is a benefit to being in a legally recognized marriage is that it introduces a level of stability into a relationship. This is going to help change the social climate. Hearing the Supreme Court say this is OK will help couples feel like they're part of regular society.

Rick Warren

We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.

Rick Warren

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Steve Young

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Veronica Roth

Change, like healing, takes time.

Rebecca Solnit

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

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.

Sri Chinmoy

The entire world may not change. The entire world cannot change. The entire world even will not change. But your tiny world you can and will change forever at this very moment with the help of your confidence-heart. Yours will be the unparalleled victory.

Ruby Dee

The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Rudolf Arnheim

When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

Ross Bleckner

It almost seems that if you can describe it, you can change it.

Ross Perot

Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

Roger Clemens

If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.

Virginia Graham

suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.

W. H. Auden

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

Wayne Dyer

Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.

Wayne Dyer

Instead of asking yourself what everyone else's opinion is going to be and how your action will be perceived by others, ask yourself, 'How do I want my life to be lived?' Then proceed to take a small risk in the direction of that new action.