Best change & firsts Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”

Life Should Firsts Ends Change Advantage Should Have Faults Objections Correcting

Book:Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818

“If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.”

Ifs Want Firsts Mean Feelings Action Change Conditions Everyday Life Changing Everyday Life Thoughts And Feelings

Book:Social Responsibility

Source: Social Responsibility

“People go through four stages before any revolutionary development: 1. It's nonsense, don't waste my time. 2. It's interesting, but not important. 3. I always said it was a good idea. 4. I thought of it first.”

People Firsts Said Important Ideas Change Interesting Four Stage Development Waste Revolutionary My Time Nonsense Good Ideas Wasting My Time Don't Waste My Time

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“The first problem for all of us, men and woman, is not to learn, but to unlearn. We are filled with the popular wisdom of several centuries just past, and we are terrified to give it up. Patriotism means obedience, age means wisdom, woman means submission, black means inferior: these are preconceptions imbedded so deeply in our thinking that we honestly may not know that they are there.”

Thinking Knows Men Giving Firsts May Mean Problem Age Past Black Change Learning Century Filled Honestly Obedience Bigotry Inferiors Terrified Submission Preconceptions Unlearn

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor.”

Ifs Should Firsts Two Self Change Quality Self Worth Sense Of Humor Sense Of Self Rough Times

Book:Thinking In The Future Tense

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.”

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Book:Thinking In The Future Tense

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a possibility to fear. That fear, I think, is one reason for the dark projections of a catastrophic future that are so widespread, in our dual society. The present powerful, being committed to polarization, expect that any new deal will overturn the one that set them in authority; that the last shall be first and the first last, role reversal everywhere, men as slaves, women as masters, in a revolution of contradiction.”

“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

“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

“In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.”

Knows Life Inspirational Needs Firsts Order Change Deals Know How Heal

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.”

Life Inspirational Needs Mind Firsts Kind Spirit Change Views Healing Creatures Transformation Notion Including Creator Insight Crucial Spiritual Transformation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“But if you know that you are a man too, and that even such are those that rule, learn this first of all: that all human affairs are a wheel which, as it turns, does not allow the same men always to be fortunate.”

Ifs Knows Men Firsts Humans Doe Turns Change Fortune Affair Fortunate Wheels

Author:Herodotus

“The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children!”

Love Firsts Heart Children Two Time Change Feet Sky Rocks Changed Promise Flesh Dust Witness Instant Things Change Constancy Children Love Crumbling Vicissitudes

Author:Denis Diderot

“Every epoch which seeks renewal first projects its ideal into a human form. In order to comprehend its own essence tangibly, the spirit of the time chooses a human being as its prototype and raising this single individual, often one upon whom it has chanced to come, far beyond his measure, the spirit enthuses itself for its own enthusiasm.”

Firsts Humans Form Spirit Order Individual Change Human Beings History Projects Ideals Essence Enthusiasm Renewal Epoch Human Form Prototype

Author:Stefan Zweig

“Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.”

Source: Childhood's Future

“Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.”

People Needs Firsts Humans Heart Government Form Values Change Standards Constitution Human Heart Forms Of Government Human Values Clamor

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Resistance is the first step to change.”

Firsts Change Steps Resistance First Steps

Book:The Power Is Within You

Source: The Power Is Within You

“When the first human began to read and write, he or she set the world upon a new evolution. Similarly, if a few individuals have the strength and the power to walk away from the restrictions of the world and to stand fearlessly beyond it, eventually, in some distant millennium, all mankind will also come to that same liberation.”

Ifs World Writing Firsts Humans Individual Change Walks Mankind Evolution Liberation Restriction Millennium

Book:The Trick to Money is Having Some

Source: The Trick to Money is Having Some

“Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.”

Firsts May Whole Law Change Secret Written Identity Rings Code

Book:Nature and Other Essays

Source: Nature and Other Essays

“To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.”

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Author:Alicia Keys

“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.”

World Inspirational Firsts Together Order Change Inner Peace Changing The World

Book:Starting At Zero: His Own Story

Source: Starting At Zero: His Own Story

“As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.”

Firsts Growth Change Birth Creatures Innovation Ill Living Creatures Starting Anew

Author:Francis Bacon

“What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.”

“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.”

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Author:River Phoenix

“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”

World Firsts Heart Hands Success Peace Change Leadership Kindness Social Justice Helping Others Maintenance Head And Heart Zen Motorcycle Maintenance Hearts And Hands

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”

Firsts Lasts Literature Change Lays

Book:The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.”

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

“All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.”

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.”

“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.”

Source: The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”

Firsts Inspiration Change Perspective Perception Management 7 Habits Seven Habits

Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”

Knows Inspirational Firsts Ideas Dream Change Vision Ridiculous New Ideas

Author:William James

“Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. We are not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it.”

“First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.”

Life Firsts Art Stills Ends Light Science Force Nature Change Clear Source Judgment Standards Tests Universal Impart Light Life

Author:Alexander Pope

“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.”

Mind Firsts Made Choices Next Found Fear Growth Change Results Path Activity Creating Alternatives Destination Makers Making Changes Starting Anew

Author:John Schaar

“Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.”

Want Life Firsts Helping Change Leadership Responsibility

Book:The raw Pearl

Source: The raw Pearl

“When you're the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you're basically saying, "I'm right, and everyone else is wrong." That's a very unpleasant position to be in. It's at once exhilarating and at the same time an invitation to be attacked.”

Inspirational Firsts Believe Persons Different Belief Change Business Position Innovation Invitations First Person Larry Exhilarating Belive

Author:Larry Ellison

“Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.”

Source: Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial

“Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.”

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Book:Love

Source: Love

“Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.”

Want Firsts Shows Change Management Institutions

Author:John Tusa

“The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.”

Ifs Firsts Two Done Happens Change Environment Things Happen Faster New Environment

Author:Andy Grove

“We needed to be uncompromising with our workforce, to expect 100 percent of our employees to comply 100 percent of the time with complex and ever-changing government mandates. Striving to comply with every law does not mean agreeing with every law. But, even when faced with laws we think are counter-productive, we must first comply. Only then, from a credible position, can we enter into a dialogue with regulatory agencies to demonstrate alternatives that are more beneficial. If these efforts fail, we can then join with others in using education and/or political efforts to change the law.”

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