“A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.”
“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”
“Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.”
“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.”
“Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.”
“Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.”
“The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.”
“We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.”
“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.”
“The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.”
“Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.”
“That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.”
“There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''”
“The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.”
“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.”
“Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.”
“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.”
“As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.”
“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.”
“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.”
“Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.”
“Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.”
“The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.”
“The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.”
“The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!”
“The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.”
“In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.”
“For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.”