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Change

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

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

Constant change is here to stay.

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.

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

Carol Burnett

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bryant, William C.

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

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

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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Hooker, Richard

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Confucius

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline