Change Quotes IV

CHANGE QUOTES IV

quotations about change

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

ROSABETH MOSS KANTER

The Change Masters

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You gotta run, this world is standin' still
You gotta believe, you can make it up that hill
You gotta know, you can have anything
You gotta be the best that you can be
But don't change for me.

GIN BLOSSOMS

"Don't Change for Me"

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Asimov on Science Fiction

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People do not change, they are merely revealed.

ANNE ENRIGHT

The Gathering

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When you're down and out, there seems no hope at all
But if you just believe there's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well let us realize
Oh, that a change can only come
When we stand together as one, yeah, yeah, yeah

MICHAEL JACKSON & LIONEL RICHIE

"We Are the World"

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Don't go changing to try and please me
You never let me down before

BILLY JOEL

"Just the Way You Are"

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All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

foreword, Tales from Earthsea

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Nothing lasts. That's what makes everything ... so precious.

WILLIAM SHATNER

The Ashes of Eden

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Change moves in spirals, not circles. For example, the sun goes up and then it goes down. But everytime that happens, what do you get? You get a new day. You get a new one. When you breathe, you inhale and you exhale. But every single time that you do that, you're a little bit different then the one before. We're always changing. And its important to know that there are some changes you can't control and that there are others you can.

DAN DUNNE

Half Nelson

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You don't have to love change to be successful, but you need to be willing to accept it. Change is a catalyst for personal growth. It gets you out of a rut, it gives you a fresh start, and it affords you an opportunity to reevaluate your direction. If you resist change, you're really resisting success. Learn flexibility, or learn to like living with your failures.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

Motivated to Succeed

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Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change
To something new, to something strange;
Nothing that is can pause or stay;
The moon will wax, the moon will wane,
The mist and cloud will turn to rain,
The rain to mist and cloud again,
To-morrow be to-day.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Kéramos

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Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.

JAMES BALDWIN

Partisan Review, Fall 1956

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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Everything is the same as always.

PETER WEISS

The Tower

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You can't change the world
But you can change the facts
And when you change the facts
You change points of view
If you change points of view
You may change a vote
And when you change a vote
You may change the world

DEPECHE MODE

"New Dress"

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People don't get to change things. Things change people once in a while, but people don't change things.

LAWRENCE BLOCK

In the Midst of Death

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Change in all things is sweet.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics

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The world's a scene of changes, and to be
Constant, in Nature were inconstancy.