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Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.
When you think that someone or something other than yourself needs to change, you're mentally out of your business.
The nasty little secret was that I couldn't read worth a darn. In my case, I still read very slowly to this moment.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change. It can not only move us, it makes us move.
I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.
Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.
Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
I'm one of those people that think Thomas Edison and the light bulb changed the world more than Karl Marx ever did.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
I was facing life for the first time. I was 12 years old, but I felt like a 20 year old. I knew then what life was.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.
If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.
[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.
It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.
When you are in your heart, nothing needs to be done to bring change... It will happen automatically and with grace.
What changed in the United States with Hurricane Katrina was a feeling that we have entered a period of consequences.
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken..."
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.
The law changes and flows like water, and . . . the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.