925 private quotes tagged change

“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” — Peter Drucker

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“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.” — Mao Zedong

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“Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.” — Tony Campolo

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“People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.” — Eleanor Clift

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“When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.” — Robert Anthony

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“The more things change, the more they are the same.” — Alphonse Karr

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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” — Earl Nightingale

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“As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.” — James Russell Lowell

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“Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.” — Sai Baba

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“One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

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“Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.” — Robert Mugabe

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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O'Connor

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“If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.” — Andrea Jung

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“God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.” — Doug Larson

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“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” — Nikos Kazantzakis

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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.” — Clint Eastwood

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“Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

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“What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.” — Havelock Ellis

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“There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.” — Robert Louis Stevenson

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“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.” — R. D. Laing

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“Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.” — Alvin Toffler

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“Even God cannot change the past.” — Agathon

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