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If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.
It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish.
For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.
He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.
Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo: your time has come - and gone. It's time for change in America.
If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
Climate change is sometimes misunderstood as being about changes in the weather. In reality it is about changes in our very way of life.
I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.
We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a little better than we found it.
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.
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.
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.
O Hope! Dazzling, radiant Hope! What a change thou bringest to the hopeless; brightening the darkened paths, and cheering the lonely way.
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That's why mankind must change the end of the road!
But I can tell - let truth be told - That love will change in growing old; Though day by day is nought to see, So delicate his motions be.
When you beat England at Twickenham you don't feel the need to make changes to a winning side, but there are areas we think we can improve
I wouldn't change anything about myself. Not because I'm being cocky or anything, but because this is who I am, and I'm proud of who I am.
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.
Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.
If you learn something that changes you, you've made progress. If you learn something that changes others, you've helped change the world.
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.
Remain true to yourself and your philosophy. Changing in the face of adversity will in fact diminish your credibility with your customers.
Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.
We are born to be ourselves-in need of upgrading the gene-to look back again and again and befriend the person we once intended to become.
The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.
You can't make people change, but the organizers of WorldFest hope that people consider being vegetarian for both moral and health reasons
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.
So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.
The only problem we really have is we think we're not supposed to have problems! Problems call us to higher level- - face & solve them now!
I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.