| Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. — Kathleen Norris It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin All things must change to something new, to something strange. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t. It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not. — James Gordon To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard I’ve arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I’ve been doing. — Alice Koller There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity. — General Douglas MacArthur When you’re through changing, you’re through. — Bruce Barton The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.– Alvin Toffler Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. — Mark Twain Change is the process by which the future invades our lives. — Alvin Toffler Every moment of one’s existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. — Norman Mailer Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness? — Artemus Ward All appears to change when we change. — Henri-Frederic AmielSecurity is a kind of death. — Tennessee Williams How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Anne Frank The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. — Chinese Proverb The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. — P. B. Medawar To see things in the seed, that is genius. — Lao-tzu I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead. — Winnie the Pooh It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. — Confucius Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it’s the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead All is flux, nothing stays still. — Heraclitus Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. — John Kenneth Galbraith Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor the last to lay the old aside. — Alexander Pope The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. — Moliere It is better to wear out than to rust out. — Bishop Richard Cumberland If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. — Margaret Mead Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world’s estimation. — Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) “Realistic” people who pursue “practical” aims are rarely as realistic or practical in the long run as dreamers who pursue their dreams. — Hans Selye I have an almost complete disregard of precedent and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done…I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. I go for anything new that might improve the past. — Clara Barton If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. — Gail Sheehy Don’t throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water. — Swedish proverb Reason can answer questions,but imagination has to ask them. — Ralph Gerard He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon, Essays The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. — Anonymous In spite of warnings, nothing much happens until the status quo becomes more painful than change. — Laurence J. Peter |
