CHANGE

My selection of quotes about Change from there: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_changegrowth.html


The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 03, 2004

Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)

Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol


ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER:
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

CHARLES DUBOIS:
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.


CHARLES KETTERING:
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.

EPICTETUS:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

G. K. CHESTERTON:
The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

G. K. CHESTERTON:
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

GENERAL ERIC SHINSEKI:
If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less. [Chief of Staff, U. S. Army]

GEORG C. LICHTENBERG:
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

GLORIA STEINEM:
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.


GLORIA STEINEM:
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?


HENRI BERGSON:
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

HERACLITUS:
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. ca. 500 BCE

HERACLITUS:
All is flux; nothing stays still.


HERAKLIETOS OF EPHESOS:
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season.


IRENE PETER:
Just because everything is different doesn't mean that everything has changed.

JAMES YORKE:
The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.


JOHN F. KENNEDY:
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

LEO TOLSTOY:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.


MADAME DE STAEL:
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. (L'esprit humain fait progres toujours, mais c'est progres en spirale.)

MARCUS AURELIUS:
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.


OVID:
All things change; nothing perishes.