Change Quotes - Page 42

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Don't let yourself be weighed down by what other people think, because in a few years, in a few decades, or in a few centuries, that way of thinking will have changed. Live now what others will only live in the future.

You can not become who you want to be until you have changed who you used to be

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?

For every positive change you make in your life, something else also changes for the better - it creates a chain reaction.

I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.

You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.

"If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to. I can even make mistakes and that trust level, that emotional reserve, will compensate for it. My communication may not be clear, but you'll get my meaning anyway. You won't make me "an offender for a word." When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective."

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.