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Change

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Best Quotes about Change

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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.

Mailer, Norman

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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.

Crum, Thomas

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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.

Gurdjieff, George

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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.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

Macmillan, Harold

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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. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

Asimov, Isaac

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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.

Covey, Stephen R.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Constant change is here to stay.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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.

Bacon, Francis

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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.

Richfield, Lew

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

Alinsky, Saul

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul