Best change & trying Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”

Trying Goal Change Justice Comedy Unconscious Collectives Collective Unconscious

Author:David Letterman

“My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.”

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Author:Rene Descartes

“I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.”

Men Trying Might America Change Poor Rivers Horse League Conventions Crossings

Book:Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln

“it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.”

Trying Change Discontent

Book:Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

Source: Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words

“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

“The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.”

Trying Whole Moving Law Change Habit Ideals Moving Forward Range Fixed Unconscious Idealism

Book:Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

Source: Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious

“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”

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Author:Alan Watts

“The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing.”

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Author:Terri E Apter

“Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.”

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Author:Pope Francis

“In my view, Democrats and Republicans work together too little, and I would try to change that if I got to be president. And when it came to radical Islam, I would go after them before they come back here again.”

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Author:Lindsey Graham

“American Action Network should be spending their money to try and get those Democrats to change the votes, not beating up on Republicans in the House.”

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Author:Mick Mulvaney

“A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.”

Source: Morse, John T.Life and letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I'm not sure I want to sound like a candidate. I just want to sound like an American who's trying to make this country a heck of a lot stronger. Not a politician typical, but somebody that's going to go and do the job, not pay attention to all the special interest groups, change the status quo, shift power out of Washington and get America on the track again with strengthening our military as well.”

“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”

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Author:Michael Jordan

“Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.”

“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”

Men Trying Change Impossible Equality Accidents

Author:J. B. Priestley

“We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.”

People Trying Change Community Organization Anarchy Anarchist

Author:Alan Bennett

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”

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Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

Book:The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses

“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.”

Ifs Trying Age Change Environment Change Yourself

Author:B. F. Skinner

“The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.”

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Book:Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

“Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.”

People Trying Change Calories Dining

Author:John Walters

“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.”

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Book:A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.

Source: A business and its beliefs: the ideas that helped build IBM.

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

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Book:Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”

“The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.”

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Book:Invisible Monsters Remix

Source: Invisible Monsters Remix

“I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.”

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Author:Joseph Brodsky

“Cheat your landlord if you can -- and must -- but do not try to shortchange the Muse.”

Ifs Trying Change Cheat Muse Writing Life Screenwriting Great Writing Landlord

Book:The Western Lands

Source: The Western Lands

“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.”

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Author:Bernard Baruch

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”

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Book:Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

Source: Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything

“Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Trying Sometimes Change Work Anxiety Attempting Take A Chance Making Changes Opportunity Knocks

Book:Drown

Source: Drown

“If you can neither accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.”

Ifs Trying Change Accepting Laughing

Author:Ashleigh Brilliant

“Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.”

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve”

“I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”

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Book:Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46

“Synergy is the driver. There are two levels of synergy: there are operating synergies, which, you know, you'd have to be stupid not to try to take advantage of, and then there are strategic synergies. In other words, in what positions you would be more sustainable, more long term, and so on.”

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Author:John C. Malone

“I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication...Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going,"Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting...Which is more important, the present or the future?"”

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Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“If I were to give off-the-cuff advice to anyone trying to institute change, I would say, "How clear is the metaphor?"”

Ifs Giving Trying Change Clear Advice Metaphor Institute Cuffs

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.”

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Book:Venture to the interior

Source: Venture to the interior

“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”

Ifs Want Trying Understanding Change Business Favourite Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Understanding You Understanding Things

Author:Kurt Lewin

“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.”

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Author:Neil Gaiman

“Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”

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Author:Grace Hopper

“One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by a racial constant. We can often explain them-in terms of contact with other peoples, of individual genius, of geography-but not by racial differences.”

Trying Science Culture Individual Term Change Differences Race Generations Genius Constant Contact Fleeting Geography Cultural Change

Author:Robert Lowie

“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”

Source: Profiles in Courageous Manhood

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