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Change

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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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.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Klee, Paul

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Constant change is here to stay.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Confucius

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hooker, Richard

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.