Quotes on Change

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

The reformer has enemies in all who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly distributed.

The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than initiating changes. The innovator makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old order, and only lukewarm support is forthcoming from those who would prosper under the new. Their support is lukewarm ... partly because men are generally incredulous, never really trusting new things unless they have tested them by experience.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.