Topic: Perspective
Things Change
"In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Al Rogers
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts
"'One and one make two' assumes that the changes in the shift of circumstance are unimportant. But it is impossible for us to analyze this notion of unimportant change. - Alfred North Whitehead
"Change lays not her hand upon truth." - Algernon Swinburne
"The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing. - Augusto Roa Bastos
"Change is one thing, progress is another. 'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. - Bertrand Russell
"Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. ... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust." - Charles Dickens
"If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center." - Dean Rusk
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson
"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?" - Robert Anthony
"All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. - Ellen Glasgow
"Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal." - Eric Lustbader, The Kaisho
"Money is always there but the pockets change." - Gertrude Stein
"He who rejects change is the architect of decay." - Harold Wilson
"I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it." - Henry Miller
"What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense." - Joseph Addison
"People change and forget to tell each other." - Lillian Hellman
"We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped." - Lyman L. Bryson
"I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction." - Richard Nixon "A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.' - Richard Whately
"Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor." - Robert Frost
"Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before." - Samuel Johnson
"Men are always sincere. They change sincerities, that's all." - Tristan Bernard
"People who are easily shocked should be shocked more often." - Mae West
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?" - Doctor Who
Posted by Alan at 14:14 PST
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