Change Quotes - Page 39

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Kaizen and innovation are the two major strategies people use to create change. Where innovation demands shocking and radical reform, all kaizen asks is that you take small, comfortable steps toward improvement.

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.

Everything is transient. Everything is constantly changing. The only thing we have is now.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

The Work reveals that what you think shouldn't have happened should have happened. It should happened because it did, and no thinking in the world can change it. This doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it. It just means that you can see things without resistance and without the confusion of your inner struggle. No one wants their children to get sick, no one wants to be in a car accident; but when these things happen, how can it be helpful to mentally argue with them? We know better than to do that, yet we do it, because we don't know how to stop.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

I think people change, but the media, they never allowed me to change. They never allowed me to be a better person

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

We change ideas like neckties.