Quotes on Change

Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Someone who has juggled the ball in the air during a game, after which four defenders of the opponent get the time to run back, that's the player people think is great. I say he has to go to a circus.

Technique is not being able to juggle a ball 1000 times. Anyone can do that by practicing. Then you can work in the circus. Technique is passing the ball with one touch, with the right speed, at the right foot of your team mate.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

I'm ex-player, ex-technical director, ex-coach, ex-manager, ex-honorary president. A nice list that once again shows that everything comes to an end.

In my teams, the goalie is the first attacker, and the striker the first defender.

The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.

What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.

I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.