Quotes on Change

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Happiness is not the end of life: character is.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

A man's character is his fate.

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.

All things are in a state of flux.

Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: "It's their fault. I can't change," you stay stuck.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

The Internet doesn't change everything. It doesn't change supply and demand. It doesn't magically allow you to build businesses by turning investors' money into operating expenses indefinitely. The money always runs out eventually.. the Internet doesn't change that, as we have seen.

Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.

The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else's highlight reel.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.