Change Quotes - Page 76

The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all.

You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

There isn't anything in your life that cannot be changed.

I don't drop players. I make changes.

When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

I have never changed. I feel as young as I always did and remain close friends with Gerhard Schröder.