Change Quotes - Page 92

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita... "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

I am a skeptic...Global warming has become a new religion.

Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad.

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

The only constant is change.

Everything changes and nothing stands still.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

The bottom billion people don't contribute at all to climate change - maybe 1 percent of emissions, they could double or triple their emissions and the climate would not be destabilised.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

Everything has changed. The flying changed. The airports have changed.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.'

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.