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Change

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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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.

Alther, Lisa

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Brown, Les

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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?

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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.

Douglas, William O.

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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.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Spencer, Herbert

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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.

Cleaver, Eldridge