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Change |
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| “It is in changing that things find
purpose.” |
| -- Heraclitus |
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| "The only thing constant in
life is change." |
| --
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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| “Just when I
have learned the way to live, life changes.” |
| -- Hugh Prather |
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| “Because things are the way they are, things
will not stay the way they are.” |
| -- Bertolt Brecht |
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| "When you blame others, you give up your power to
change." |
| -- Douglas Noel Adams (b. 1952),
British author |
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"Change is
the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix."
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-- Christina Baldwin |
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| "We must all obey the great law of change.
It is the most powerful law of nature." |
| -- Edmund Burke (1729-97), Irish-born British
politician |
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| "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise
man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and
doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." |
| -- Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC),
Egyptian king |
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| "The meaning I picked, the one that
changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder." |
| -- Æschylus (525-456 BC), Greek
tragic dramatist |
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| "Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself." |
| -- Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) |
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| "They must often change, who would be
constant in happiness or wisdom." |
| -- Confucius |
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| "My opinions may have changed, but not the
fact that I am right." |
| -- Ashleigh (Ellwood) Brilliant (b. 1933), UC
Berkeley philosopher |
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| "It is never too late to be who you might
have been." |
| -- George Eliot |
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| "The future has a way of arriving
unannounced." |
| -- George F. Will, journalist, |
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| "You must be the change you wish to see in
the world." |
| -- Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian
nationalist, spiritual leader |
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| "If in the last few years you haven't
discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse,
you may be dead." |
| -- Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), American
writer |
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"I am personally convinced that one person can be a
change catalyst, a "transformer" in any situation, any
organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf.
It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage,
and faith to be a transforming leader." |
| -- Stephen R. Covey, (b. 1932), American writer |
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"The
art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve
change amid order."
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| -- Alfred North Whitehead |
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"We
most always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves;
otherwise we grow hard."
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--
Johann von Goethe |
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| “Everything
passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.” |
| -- French Proverb |
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| "If the facts don't fit the theory, change the
facts." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| “Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.” |
| --
Robert Byrne |
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| “All that philosophers have done is interpret
the world in different ways. It is our job to change it.” |
| -- Karl Marx |
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"The
most effective way to cope with change is to help create it."
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| --
L. W. Lynett |
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| "The universe is change; our life is what our
thoughts make it." |
| -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
(121-180), Roman Emperor |
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| "Change in all things is sweet." |
| -- Aristotle (384-322 BC), Greek
philosopher |
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"Lord grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can, and
the wisdom to know the difference." |
| -- Saint Francis of Assisi
(1182-1226) |
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| "We must adjust to changing times and
still hold to unchanging principles." |
| -- Jimmy Carter |
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| "Everything changes, nothing remains without
change." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), [Siddhartha Gautama] Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
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| "The unleashed power of the atom has changed
everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drift toward unparalled
catastrophes." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| "Nothing endures but change." |
| -- Heraclitus (540 BC-480 BC),
Greek philosopher |
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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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| "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who
inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a
world which no longer exists." |
| -- Eric Hoffer (1902-83),
American philosopher |
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| "All changes, even the most longed for,
have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of
ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter
another." |
| -- Anatole France (1844 - 1924) |
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| "Change is the essence of life. Whether
gradual and undetected, or prominent and transforming, change goes
on moment after moment. Call me an optimist, but I believe in life,
and I think life is not changing for the worse. Quite, the contrary,
once set in motion as one unified system, life's individual
instances grow ever more complex or simple as appropriate.
Life is powerful, desirous, and non-biased, and it has a
purpose." |
| -- Alfred Emerson Unaterra (1952-2002),
American writer |
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| "The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson
consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet
everything is completely different." |
| -- Aldous Leonard Huxley
(1894-1963), British writer, "Brave New World" |
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| “Human
beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change
the outer aspects of their lives.” |
| -- William James (1842 - 1910) |
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| "Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream
world into reality." |
| -- Theodor Reik |
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| "You can never step into the same river;
for new waters are always flowing on to you." |
| -- Heraclitus (fl. 500 BC), Greek philosopher |
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| "Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world." |
| -- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (b. 1918), South
African Black political leader |
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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
(1917-63), 35th US President, Democrat, politician |
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| "The world hates change, yet it is the
only thing that has brought progress." |
| -- Charles Franklin Kettering
(1876-1958), American electrical engineer |
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| "Accidents, try to change them -- it's
impossible. The accidental reveals man." |
| -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973),
Spanish artist, one of most influential of the 20th century |
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| "The truth does not change according to
our ability to stomach it." |
| -- Flannery O'Connor (1925-64),
American writer |
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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." |
| -- Georg Christopher Lichtenberg (1742-99),
German physicist, philosopher |
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| "The only person who is educated is the one who has
learned how to learn...and change." |
| -- Carl Rogers (1902-87),
American psychologist, founder of humanistic psychology |
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| "The times they are a-changing." |
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-- Bob Dylan |
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| "Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent
can resist change." |
| -- Socrates (470?-399 BC), Greek
philosopher |
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| "Everything is changeable, everything appears and
disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony
of life and death." |
| -- Buddha (563?-483? BC), [Siddhartha Gautama] Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism |
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| "They always say that time changes things, but you actually
have to change them yourself." |
| -- Andy Warhol (1930?-87),
American artist, leader of pop art movement |
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| "If we do not learn from history, we shall
be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future,
we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse." |
| -- Alvin Toffler |
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| "Change comes not from men and women
changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the
next." |
| -- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| "One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or
in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change
is the essence of life." |
| -- Anatole France (1844-1924),
French critic, writer |
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| "Not
everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until
it is faced."
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-- James Baldwin, American novelist |
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| "Man is immortal; therefore he must die
endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in
changing forms." |
| -- Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Bengali
writer |
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"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory,
tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual
consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping
the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams.
The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our
lives." |
| -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. |
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| “It
must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry
out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle,
than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies
in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm
defenders in all those who would profit by the new.” |
| -- Machiavelli |
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| "Loss is nothing else but change, and
change is Nature's delight." |
| -- Marcus Aelius Aurelius (121 - 180 AD), Roman
emperor, philosopher |
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| "The greatest discovery of my generation
is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes
of mind." |
| -- William James (1842 - 1910), American
philosopher |
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| "If we do not learn from history, we shall
be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future,
we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse." |
| -- Alvin Toffler, Futurist |
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| "If anything is certain, it is that change
is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in
this form tomorrow." |
| -- Philip (Bayard) Crosby (1926 2001), American
management consultant, writer |
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| "In the choice between changing ones mind
and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the
proof." |
| -- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| "Man needs, for his happiness, not only
the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and
change." |
| -- Bertrand
Russel (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician |
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| "A photograph never grows old. You and I
change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph
always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or
father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as
people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph
can be kind." |
| -- Albert Einstein (1875-1955),
German-born American theoretical physicist |
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| ''It is said an Eastern monarch once charged
his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which
should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They
presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away...' '' |
| -- Abraham Lincoln |
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