Change Quotes - Page 26

The Creator wants us to drum. He wants us to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants. After all, we have already corrupted the world with power and greed....which hasn't gotten us anywhere - now's the time to corrupt the world with drum, dance and chants.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

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.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Design is a response to social change.

The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you absolutely, positively do have the power to change.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing.

Guess who surprised themselves and changed their minds.

You seek too much information and not enough transformation.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.