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In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.
A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.
People say history is boring, and that is true because people are boring. We haven't changed since time began. We're still the same.
The next four years, there won't be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It's a naturally Conservative issue.
One key to successful leadership is continuous personal change. Personal change is a reflection of our inner growth and empowerment.
I have left all my business and all my husbands; I have taken with me only fair weather and my children, which is as much as I want.
The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.
I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.
Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.
Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.
My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.
You'll never be disappointed if you always keep an eye on uncharted territory, where you'll be challenged and growing and having fun.
Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
If necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the uncle of change. Without it, progress slows and then stops and then reverses.
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other.
I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.
We don't have time to wait for President Bush to change his mind. How many breakthroughs have been missed as a result of this policy?
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.
You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.
You write in order to change the world ... if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it.
This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
If you're going to cook a fresh chicken, it's not a big concern. But if you're going to ship a chicken, there's a change in structure.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
I feel confident imposing change on myself. It's a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That's why I need to throw curve balls.