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“If we don't act at all (express our imaginings either in work or a changing personality, so that we can learn and think again something better) we certainly rot.”

Ifs Thinking Change Work Personality Something Better

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.”

World Life Moments Found Change Power Courage Environment Blame Misery Changing The World Our Environment Power To Change Muster Power To Change The World

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“we can't be creative if we refuse to be confused. Change always starts with confusion; cherished interpretations must dissolve to make way for what's new. Great ideas and inventions miraculously appear in the space of not knowing.”

Ifs Way Ideas Change Space Creative Knowing Refuse Invention Confusion Uncertainty Confused Interpretation Not Knowing Be Creative Great Idea

Book:Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

Source: Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future

“We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.”

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

“I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.”

Change Curves Shifting Cusp

Book:A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

Source: A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

“People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.”

People May Change Difficulty Enormous

Book:No Love Lost

Source: No Love Lost

“it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.”

Knows Humans Desire Order Wish Change Human Beings Popularity Mediocre

Author:Marie Antoinette

“Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.”

Use Culture Change Dominant

Book:Jenny Holzer: xenon

Source: Jenny Holzer: xenon

“One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.”

Change Consequence Reform Irony Impossibility Persistent Predicting

Book:The great school wars, New York City, 1805-1973: a history of the public schools as battlefield of social change

Source: The great school wars, New York City, 1805-1973: a history of the public schools as battlefield of social change

“Progress? It ought to be stopped, that's what I say. If the Lord meant chickens to come out of incubators he'd never have made hens, it stands to reason.”

Ifs Made Reason Change Lord Progress Ought Resistance Chickens Hens

Book:Pavements at Anderby: tales of

Source: Pavements at Anderby: tales of

“It was never too late to undo who you had become.”

Change Late Too Late Never Too Late

Author:Rosanne Cash

“People may find it more comfortable to listen to us if we equivocate, but in the long run only words that discomfort them are going to change our situation.”

People Ifs May Long Running Change Situation Comfortable Long Runs Discomfort

Book:We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

Source: We Are All Part of One Another: A Barbara Deming Reader

“The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.”

People Thinking World Change Differences Making A Difference Daring Unorthodox

Author:Ruby Dee

“I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.”

Change Stage Sorrow Finals Void Surroundings Annihilation

Book:The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

Source: The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

“People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.”

People Knows Way Persons Change Opinion Health Comfortable Losing Weight

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.”

Thinking Way Change Acting Permanent New Ways Way Of Thinking New Ways Of Thinking Permanent Change

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“Time fleeth on, Youth soon is gone, Naught earthly may abide; Life seemeth fast, But may not last-- It runs as runs the time.”

May Running Lasts Change Gone Youth

Book:The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

Source: The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems

“Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.”

Joy Change Sweet Essence Perceive Bitterness Impermanence

Book:Master of the Vineyard

Source: Master of the Vineyard

“What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.”

Seems Government Left Change Loss Progress Violence Authority Capitalism Fundamentals Legacy Divides Sixty Patriarchy Whiteness Loss Of Faith

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.”

Men Humans Children Age Time Change Race Lows Bored Human Race Boredom More Time Sections Threshold

Book:It's only me: pieces from a column

Source: It's only me: pieces from a column

“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.”

People Order Change Attention Serious Cost Foolish Dazzle

Book:Lesbian nation: the feminist solution

Source: Lesbian nation: the feminist solution

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

Source: 99 My Life in Pictures

“You have to do your best to face every moment, because this moment will never come again. The moment that you are living right now is a very important opportunity to make your life vividly alive. If you want to live with spiritual security in the midst of constant change, you have to burn the flame of your life force in everything you do.”

Ifs Want Important Moments Faces Spiritual Opportunity Force Change Alive Security Right Now Constant Flames Midst Living Right Living Right Now

Book:Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

Source: Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time

“Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect change is the way to perfect them. It gets the name of wilfulness when it will not admit of a lawful change to the better. Therefore constancy without knowledge cannot be always good. In things ill it is not virtue, but an absolute vice.”

Way Names Change Perfect Virtue Perfection Absolutes Ill Vices Imperfect Constancy

Book:Resolves: divine, moral and political

Source: Resolves: divine, moral and political

“we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.”

Needs Heart Change Errors

Book:Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

Source: Endless Path: Awakening Within the Buddhist Imagination: Jataka Tales, Zen Practice, and Daily Life

“Because the fundamental human problem is that people are afraid of change.”

People Humans Problem Change Fundamentals Human Problems Afraid Of Change

Author:Rei Kawakubo

“Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way.”

Way Giving Wells Time Dies Change Space Habit Familiar Worn

Author:Arthur Zajonc

“The process of education is not generally a process of teaching people to think and ask questions. It ... is mostly one of teaching the young what is and getting them into a mood where they will go on keeping it that way.”

People Thinking Way Young Asks Process Change Teaching Goes On Mood Resistance

Book:Men can take it

Source: Men can take it

“Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.”

People Thinking Today Change Dangerous Tomorrow Yesterday

Book:Men can take it

Source: Men can take it

“you cannot hope for change in others, you can only work toward it in yourself. And that's hard work.”

Hard Change Hard Work

Book:Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

Source: Four Thrillers by Lisa Unger: Beautiful Lies, Sliver of Truth, Black Out, Die for You

“Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.”

Change Personal Power

Book:An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women

Source: An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women

“Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.”

Art Culture Change Personality Surprise Unexpected Breakthrough Tackling

Author:Lynda Obst

“Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.”

Way Want Doe Moving Change Rooms Greater Letting Go Priorities Vacuums Greater Good Moving Out

Book:The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity

“It's unbelievable the primitive feelings that are aroused by rapid change.”

Feelings Change Primitive Unbelievable Rapids Rapid Change

Book:Norma Jean, the termite queen

Source: Norma Jean, the termite queen

“Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.”

I Can Reality Today Pain Suffering Choices Change Accepting

Author:Karan Casey

“We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.”

Ifs Looks Mean Change Forget Revolution Details Reformation

Author:Lydia M. Child

“Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.”

Change Our Lives Bases

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.”

World Nature Change Goes On Delusion Stable Stationary

Author:Brenda Shoshanna

“This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange That even our loves should with our fortunes change, For 'tis a question left us yet to prove, Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.”

World Love Should Left Change This World Strange Prove Fortune Our Love

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“That we would do We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes, And hath abatements and delays as many As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents, And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh, That hurts by easing.”

Should Hands Change Hurt Tongue Accidents Delay Sigh Spendthrift

Book:The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators

Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators

“All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral-- Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change; Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; And all things change them to the contrary.”

Turns Black Change Flower Office All Things Instruments Contrary Melancholy Cheer Buried Funeral Bells Things Change Festivals Solemn Hymns Burial Sullen Our Wedding Bridal

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.”

Men Hate Turns Change Danger Worthy Wicked Wicked Man

Book:King Richard II: Third Series

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.”

Art Self Social Change Community Function Primaries Redefining

Author:Thomas McEvilley

“Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.”

Firsts Wish Change Deals Experience Difficulty Caught Dislike Caught Up

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

Thinking Men Long Change Hours Mistake Half Remains

Author:G. I. Gurdjieff

“Do not determine to change your life eventually. If you have decided to change your life, it is already changing.”

Ifs Change Decided Determine Changing Your Life

Book:How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas

Source: How to survive in suburbia when your heart's in the Himalayas

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

Ifs Trying Change Like You Habit Standing Notion Milk Cows Don't Change

Author:Woody Guthrie

“Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

“The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.”

People Want Inspirational Change Danger This Life Memorable Things Change Dangerous Things

Author:Nancy Astor

“A lot of people think that the music was responsible for a lot of changes in the Sixties, but I think the music came out of it. The music wouldnt have happened without the social changes.”

People Thinking Social Change Music History Happened Society Musician Responsible Sixty Social Change Wrong Reasons

Author:Steve Winwood

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