Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Wayne Dyer

Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you've always done things.

Wayne Dyer

It's only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones.

Ursula K. Le Guin

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.

William Arthur Ward

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Warren Zevon

I like wherever I am. That's my big secret.

W. Somerset Maugham

I travel because I like to move from place to place, I enjoy the sense of freedom it gives me, it pleases me to be rid of ties, responsibilities, duties, I like the unknown; I meet odd people who amuse me for a moment and sometimes suggest a theme for a composition; I am often tired of myself and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

William Petty

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

William O. Douglas

Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

Yehuda Berg

Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

Yehuda Berg

Positive change always encounters resistance, conflict, and obstacles. We must embrace difficult and heated situations in life, for that is the method of igniting our reactions in order to transform them.

Zig Ziglar

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.