Quotes on Change

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

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.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Only love and death will change all things.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.