Change Quotes - Page 66

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Don't make excuses! Make changes!

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings.

She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.

If you want to be financially-free, you need to become a different person than you are today and let go of whatever has held you back in the past.

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

We cannot change God. God is unchangeable. If changes are to be made, they must be made in us.

Small changes can produce big results - but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

The obsession with instant gratification blinds us from our long-term potential.

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

All social change begins with a conversation.

There's a radical change in the relationship with the human being and society. Art now is an open conversation with the society. Previously there was a necessity for a little bit of screaming and shouting just to get it into the conversation.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.