Change Quotes - Page 100

Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.

Instead of constantly adapting to change, why not change to be adaptive?

Money is like muck, not good unless spread.

As our thought is opened and we behold the image of eternity within ourselves, we are changed by this image into a newness of life.

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.

We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

The life you are living is your creation, your perception of reality that you can change at any time.

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.

My words are like the stars that never change.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

When you are in a hole, stop digging!