Change Quotes - Page 50

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

I don't think I knew how going to Ethiopia would affect my life, through a very simple choice of buying fair-trade coffee, we can take part in change.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

There is no joy in possession without sharing.

I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.

People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.

Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.

A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the occasions on which, he changes those ideas, procedures, and concepts.

I found the one, he changed my life, but was it me that changed?

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

Change only favours minds that are diligently looking and preparing for discovery.

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!