925 private quotes tagged change

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

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“It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” — Gary Busey

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“Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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

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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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“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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“Even God cannot change the past.” — Agathon

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“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” — William S. Burroughs

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“For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.” — Michelle Obama

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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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“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.” — Marge Piercy

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“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” — William S. Burroughs

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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.” — John Milton

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“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” — Nathaniel Branden

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“Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“There is nothing so stable as change.” — Bob Dylan

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“Not only is women's work never done, the definition keeps changing.” — Bill Copeland

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