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Change

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Gerhart, Susan

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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 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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Petworth, John

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

Virgil

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Butterworth, Eric

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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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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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

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Spander, Art

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Lynn Hall

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

Churchill, Winston

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.