Change Quotes - Page 71

Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

Every man, and every body of men on earth, possesses the right of self-government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Individuals exercise it by their single will; collections of men by that of their majority; for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men.

You change people by delight, by pleasure.

My first book was the book that changed my life.

I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.

Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small steps of kaizen disarm the brain's fear response, stimulating rational thought and creative play.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Those who are to change significantly that which they freshly encounter must themselves be changed by the changing of it.

We change whether we like it or not.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.

Climate change represents the greatest and widest-ranging market failure ever seen

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

The world is in the condition it is in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. (Not to decide is to decide.) The Earth is in the shape it's in because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make. Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.