Quotes and Sayings About Change
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Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
-- A. C. Benson -
Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
-- A. C. Benson -
There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
-- A. E. Housman -
What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
-- A. S. Byatt -
You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.
-- Abba Eban -
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.
-- Abraham Cowley -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
-- Adam Smith -
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it differs from what is old; who rejoice in every innovation, and find a strange alert pleasure in all that is, and that has never been before.
-- Agnes Repplier -
I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull -
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.
-- Ahmed Yassin -
When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
In my experience, in the real-estate business past success stories are generally not applicable to new situations. We must continually reinvent ourselves, responding to changing times with innovative new business models.
-- Akira Mori -
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
-- Al Gore -
Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
-- Al Ries -
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
-- Alain Robbe-Grillet -
Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
-- Alan Alda -
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
-- Alan Alda -
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
-- Alan Bennett -
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
-- Alan Cohen
