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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them.
Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do.
-Anon., Apple Computer ad
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Never swap horses crossing a stream.
-Proverb
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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.
-Proverb
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To change and change for the better are two different things
-Proverb
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Change yourself, change your fortunes.
-Proverb
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A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
-Proverb
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
-Saul Alinsky
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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.
-Mary S. Almanac
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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
-Lisa Alther
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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
-Maya Angelou
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
-Maya Angelou
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.
-Isaac Asimov
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
-Nancy Astor
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Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
-Marcus Aurelius
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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
-Francis Bacon
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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
-Pearl Bailey
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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
-James Baldwin
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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-James Baldwin
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People can cry much easier than they can change.
-James Baldwin
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The most useless are those who never change through the years.
-James Barrie
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When you're through changing, you're through.
-Bruce Barton
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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.
-Augusto Roa Bastos
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
-Simone de Beauvoir
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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
-Gita Bellin
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Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
-Arnold Bennett, "The Arnold Bennett Calendar"
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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly
-Henri Bergson
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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.
-Bhagavad Gita
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There is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
-Bible
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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.
-Helen P. Blavatsky
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Nothing is lasting but change; nothing perpetual but death.
-Ludwig Borne
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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
-Nathaniel Branden
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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
-Jacob M. Braude
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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
-Les Brown
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You have the power to change.
-Les Brown
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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
-Les Brown
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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
-William Cullen Bryant
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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
-Lyman L. Bryson
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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
-Buddha
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
-Warren Buffett
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
-Edmund Burke
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
-Edmund Burke
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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
-Carol Burnett
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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.
-Leo Buscaglia
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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
-Eric Butterworth
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Give wind and tide a chance to change.
-Richard E. Byrd
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The lapse of ages changes all things -- time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
-Thomas Carlyle
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
-Thomas Carlyle
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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
-Joyce Cary
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-Pema Ch, In the Gap Between Right and Wrong
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In pain is a new time born.
-Adelbert Von Chamisso
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
-Karen Kaiser Clark
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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
-Eldridge Cleaver
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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
-Henry S. Commager
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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
-Confucius
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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
-Confucius
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
-Confucius
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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
-Stephen Covey
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
-Fanny Crosby
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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.
-Thomas Crum
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Don't fear change -- embrace it.
-Anthony D'Angelo
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Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
-Anthony D'Angelo
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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
-Dante Alighieri
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
-Charles Darwin
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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.
-William B. Davis
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I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!
-Anthony De Mello
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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.
-Max De Pree
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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.
-Marquis De Sade
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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
-Jimmy Dean
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I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.
-Annie Elizabeth Delany
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It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
-W. Edwards Deming
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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
-Jeff Dewar
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
-Charles Dickens
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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
-Charles Dickens
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Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him.
-Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.
-William O. Douglas
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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
-John W. Draper
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Change starts when someone sees the next step.
-William Drayton
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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
-Peter Drucker
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
-Peter Drucker
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
-Peter Drucker
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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
-Elizabeth C. Dunn
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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.
-Wayne Dyer
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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.
-Albert Einstein
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Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
-Dwight D Eisenhower
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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
-George Eliot
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People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is change; all yields its place and goes.
-Euripides
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When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
-Lucius C. Falkland
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
-Owen Felltham
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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
-Marilyn Ferguson
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
-Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Night has come! Leaning from the window, we gaze at the vast sombre stretch of the city below us, pierced with multitudinous points of light. Jeanne presses her hand to her forehead as she leans upon the window-bar, and seems a little sad. And I say to myself as I watch her: All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves: we must die in one life before we can enter into another!
And as if answering my thought, the young girl murmurs to me.
My guardian, I am so happy; and still I feel as if I wanted to cry!
http://www.archive.org/stream/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft/crimeofsylvestre00franuoft_djvu.txt
-Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.
-Benjamin Franklin
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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.
-James Dillet Freeman
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
-Robert Frost
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Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
-J. William Galbraith
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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
-Robert C. Gallagher
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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.
-Charles A. Garfield
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Music can't change the world.
-Bob Geldof
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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
-David Lloyd George
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One person's constant is another person's variable.
-Susan Gerhart
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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.
-Joan Gilbertson
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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.
-Peter Gilcrest
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Change is healthy and useful. It has to be fought for most of the time. It's not inevitable. It takes real leadership and real effort. But I think it's really important not to take yourself too seriously. Dwight Eisenhower used to have a rule that you should always take your job seriously but not yourself.
-Newt Gingrich
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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
-Ellen Glasgow
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
-Johann von Goethe
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
-Johann von Goethe
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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
-Johann von Goethe
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
-Ellen Goodman
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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
-George Gurdjieff
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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
-Woody Guthrie
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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
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Times change, and we change with them.
-William Harrison
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Change alone is unchanging.
-Heraclitus
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Nothing endures but change.
-Heraclitus
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Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same...You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.
-Heraclitus
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
-Frank Herbert
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
-Oliver Herford
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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
-Herodotus
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
-Eric Hoffer
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The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are.... Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware...still clinging to things that no longer exist.
-Eric Hoffer
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
-Richard Hooker
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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.
-Trinidad Hunt
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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
-Elspeth Huxley
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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
-I Ching
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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
-I Ching
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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.
-W. R. [William Ralph] Inge
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
-Washington Irving, Tales of a Traveler
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
-Jesse Jackson
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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.
-Nelson Jackson
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
-Samuel Johnson
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The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
-Kabbalah
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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.
-Kabbalah
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The more things change, the more they are the same.
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-Alphonse Karr, Les Gu, January, 1849
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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.
-Kearney
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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.
-Thomas Kempis
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.
-Robert Francis Kennedy
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The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
-Clark Kerr
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
-Charles Franklin Kettering
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't.
-Stephen King
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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
-Charles Kingsley
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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
-Paul Klee
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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
-Joseph Wood Krutch
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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).
-Milan Kundera
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
-R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience
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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
-Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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A rut is a grave with no ends.
-Alan Lampkin
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
-Lao-Tzu
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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
-Bruce Lee
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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All things must change to something new, to something strange.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
-General Douglas MacArthur
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
-Harold MacMillan
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The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
-Sidney Madwed
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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
-Norman Mailer
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
-Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom
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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
-Richard Marcinko
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
-Abraham Maslow
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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
-Giuseppe Mazzini
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The issues are the same. We wanted peace on earth, love, and understanding between everyone around the world. We have learned that change comes slowly.
-Paul McCartney, 'Sayings of the Week', "The Observer", June 7, 1987
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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.
-Laurence J. Mcginley
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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.
-William Mcgovern
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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
-Mignon McLaughlin
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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.
-Sir Peter Medawar
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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.
-Menander
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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
-John Milton
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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.
-Mohammed
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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.
-Susanna Moodie
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People don't change. Only their costumes do.
-Gene Moorse
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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
-Mike Murdock
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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.
-John Naisbitt
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
-John Henry Newman
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None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.
-Kathleen Norris, Hands Full of Living
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
-Barack Obama
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
-Herbert A. Otto
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everything changes, nothing perishes
omnia mutantur, nihil interit
-Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.165
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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
-Ovid
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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.
-Jean Paul
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
-Octavio Paz
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
-Norman Vincent Peale
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.
-Norman Vincent Peale
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
-Thomas J. Peters
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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.
-John Petworth
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
-T. Boone Pickens
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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.
-Plutarch
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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
-Alexander Pope
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In Words, as Fashions, the same Rule will hold;
Alike Fantastick, if too New, or Old;
Be not the first by whom the New are try
-Alexander Pope, Essay On Criticism
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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
-Irene Porter
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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
-Hugh Prather
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
-Marcel Proust
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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
-Sir Walter Raleigh
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Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in.
-Ronald Reagan
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The moment of change is the only poem.
-Adrienne Rich
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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.
-Lew Richfield
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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
-Pat Riley
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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
-Anthony Robbins
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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
-Anthony Robbins
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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
-Anthony Robbins
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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
-Fran
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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
-Jim Rohn
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The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing -- the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
-Andy Rooney
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
-Harold Rosenberg
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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
-Carl Rowan
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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
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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.
-John Ruskin
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All movements go too far.
-Bertrand Russell
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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
-Nolan Ryan
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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.
-Sallust
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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
-Caroline Schoeder
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
-Robert H. Schuller
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We need to change so we can remain the same.
-Dorothy Serrity
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
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People do no change with the times, they change the times.
-P.K. Shaw
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
-Gail Sheehy
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
-Gail Sheehy
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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.
-Richard Shelton
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
-Barbara Sher
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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
-Rex Steven Sikes
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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
-Marsha Sinetar
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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.
-Socrates
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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
-Susan Sontag
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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.
-Art Spander
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
-Herbert Spencer
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It is not well to make great changes in old age.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
-Adlai Stevenson
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In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
-Madame Swetchine
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A rolling stone can gather no moss.
-Publilius Syrus
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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.
-Bill Tilden
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
-Alvin Toffler
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Change is the process by which the future invades our lives, and it is important to look at it closely, not merely from the grand perspectives of history, but also from the vantage point of the living, breathing individuals who experience it.
-Alvin Toffler, Future Shock Introduction
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In describing today
-Alvin Toffler
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As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.
-Eckhart Tolle
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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
-Leo Tolstoy, letter Tolstoy, February 23, 1903
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True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
-Leo Tolstoy
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
-Leo Tolstoy
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
-Brian Tracy
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Always remember you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
-Harriet Tubman, attributed, also found attributed to Mother Theresa, Denis Waitley, Truth Sojourner, and unattributed (indicating unknown, bumper sticker/magnet)
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We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
-Mark Twain, Mark Twain at Your Fingertips
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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
-Mo Udall
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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?
-Source Unknown
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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.
-Source Unknown
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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.
-Source Unknown
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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
-Source Unknown
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Constant change is here to stay.
-Source Unknown
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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
-Source Unknown
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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.
-Source Unknown
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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.
-Source Unknown
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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.
-Source Unknown
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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
-Source Unknown
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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs
-Source Unknown
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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
-Source Unknown
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The only people who like change are wet babies.
-Source Unknown
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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.
-Source Unknown
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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.
-Source Unknown
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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.
-Source Unknown
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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.
-Source Unknown
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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.
-Source Unknown
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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
-Source Unknown
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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.
-Virgil
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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
-Denis Waitley
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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.
-Lech Walesa
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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
-William Arthur Ward
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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
-Alan Watts
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
-H. G. [Herbert George] Wells
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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.
-Lynn White
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
-Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
-Walt Whitman
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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
-Oscar Wilde
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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
-Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
-Harold Wilson
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.
-Kirsten Zambucka
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Everything changes but change.
-Israel Zangwill
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Books about Change
