Change Quotes

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
George Santayana
Hugh elliott - miracles you do not have to look for them. they...
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch
A. n. whitehead - the art of progress is to preserve order amid...
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.
Stanislaw Ulam
Barbara hall, northern exposure, baby blues, 1994 - women have more to offer this world than just a...
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
Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Bertrand Russell
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
W. Edwards Deming
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
Jesse Louis Jackson
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
George Santayana
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Cicero
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Jacques Maritain
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey Allen
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
Red Skelton
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
No great leader in history fought to prevent change.
John Maxwell, 21 Indispensible Qualities of a Leade
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
Our children change uswhether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well - - He has changed his market - Cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
German prove
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatche
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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 Schlesinger, Jr.
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Richard Clark
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.
Peter Medawa
We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - - what I am is beyond my control - - For the philosophy of responsibility.
Barbara Charline Jordan
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden