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Change

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

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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.

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

Bennett, Arnold

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Churchill, Winston

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

God 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.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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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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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.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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.

Braude, Jacob M.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Felltham, Owen

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Confucius

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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.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter