Quotes about change

"Change is not reform, any more than noise is music."

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"Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control."

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"Changes start occurring when budgets are cut."

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"Constant change is here to stay."

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"Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both."

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"I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered."

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"It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better."

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"Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living."

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"People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all."

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"Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs"

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"The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change."

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"The only people who like change are wet babies."

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"To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away."

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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

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"Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes."

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"When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change."

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"You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow."

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"In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired."

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"Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde."

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"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

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"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."

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"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being."

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"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."

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"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

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"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative."

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"We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability."

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"Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed."

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"It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."

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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

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"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

Wilson, Harold on change
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"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on change
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"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

Zambucka, Kirsten on change
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"Everything changes but change."

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"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just... come out the other side. Or you don't."

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"Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others."

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"I can Change the game cause Obama Said So"

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"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. "

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"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. Hoffer, Eric "

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