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Change

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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Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Petworth, John

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

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Andy Warhol

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paul, Jean

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Christina Baldwin

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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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Kearney

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Confucius

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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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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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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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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.