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Change

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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

Walesa, Lech

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Herford, Oliver

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Mohammed

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lynn Hall