Quotes on Change

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.

Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.

Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

I find it terrible when talents are rejected based on computer stats. Based on the criteria at Ajax now I would have been rejected. When I was 15, I couldn't kick a ball 15 meters with my left and maybe 20 with my right. My qualities technique and vision, are not detectable by a computer.

Every professional golfer has a seperate coach for his drives, for approaches, for putting. In football we have one coach for 15 players. This is absurd.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

How do you change the world? One room at a time. Which room? The one you're in.

A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.