Change Quotes - Page 99

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

No radical change on the plane of history is possible without crime.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Change is the only constant.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Things don't change. We change.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.

Change is not progress.

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

The ordinary people will consider it lack of simplicity to harmonize all the changes throughout ten thousand years. With a tired body and a frightened mind, they toil to avoid this and to take that. The sage alone has no prejudice. He therefore proceeds with utter simplicity and becomes one with transformation and always roams in the realm of unity.

Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be at ease with ourselves in the face of life or death, prominence or obscurity, or an infinite amount of changes and variations, and will be in accord with principle.

Sometimes people change their minds, sometimes they meet someone else, sometimes they get sober, and sometimes he was just a jerk who you're lucky to be rid of.

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

The climate change is real today, but also the solutions that we have available to us that are cost-effective and beneficial to everyone are at our disposal now.

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.

The good renounce everything. The pure don't babble about sensual desires. Whether touched by pleasure or pain, the wise show no change of temper.