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Change

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Petworth, John

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

10.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Confucius

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

32.

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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

34.

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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Christina Baldwin

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.