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"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."
"Change happens because of individuals who team up with others or inspire others. And soon you’ve got 10 or 100 or 1,000, and then you’ve got a movement."
"The times they are a-changin'"
"Will change the Pebbles of our puddly thought To Orient Pearls."
"Change is inevitable in a progressive country, Change is constant."
"The vibrancy of change permeates the air around all of our nations, human and more-than-human."
"Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast."
"On commence par ĂŞtre dupe, On finit par ĂŞtre fripon."
"Still ending, and beginning still."
"Everyone's changing, I stay the same, I'm A solo cello outside a chorus"
"Asperius nihil est humili cum surgit in altum."
"Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse."
"Nihil est aptius ad delectationem lectoris quam temporum varietates fortunæque vicissitudines."
"Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi."
"An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?"
"We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic temperature are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet as a whole."
"Sancho Panza by name is my own self, if I was not changed in my cradle."
"It is only little men and creatures low in the scale of organization who never change."
"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."
"we live in a time when change comes rapidly-a time when much of that change is, at least for long periods, irrevocable. This is what makes our own task so urgent. It is not often that a generation is challenged, as we today are challenged. For what we fail to do-what we let go by default, can perhaps never be done."
"To-day is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our Works and Thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful; yet ever needful; and if Memory have its force and worth, so also has Hope."
"Waiting for the time to pass you by; hope the winds of change will change your mind."
"Change is the only constant."
"The world was changing, and it wouldn’t change back."
"All that you touch/You Change./All that you Change/Changes you./The only lasting truth/Is Change./God/Is Change."
"Shrine of the mighty! can it be, That this is all remains of thee?"
"I am not now That which I have been."
"How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait— Where Beauty watched to imitate."
"Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."
"And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake."
"A change came o'er the spirit of my dream."
"We feel change ... is likely to work against us. ... We do not think we have great ability to predict ... where change is going to lead. We think we have some ability to find businesses where we don't think change is going to be very important. ... we think we know in a general way what the soft drink industry, or the shaving industry, or the candy business is going to look like 10 or 20 years from now."
"Weep not that the world changes—did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."
"Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure."
"There has been one constant, as far back as we can understand: The world is always changing."
"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
"Captain James T. Kirk: But one man can change the present."
"Mirror Spock: One man cannot summon the future."
"Captain James T. Kirk: If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial, doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?"
"my slogan is “The Pen is Funnier than the Sword”—which I really believe. I’m committed to non-violent change."
"The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes."
"Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.… Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
"Never underestimate change. What seems simple at the top is magnified at lower echelons and is extremely disruptive. It is a festering crisis that needs attention from senior management or else loyalty, efficiency, and productivity will suffer."
"Maybe sometimes, we've got it wrong, but it's all right The more things seem to change The more they stay the same [...] Maybe sometimes we feel afraid, but it's all right The more you stay the same The more they seem to change Don't you think it's strange?"
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
"Il n'y a rien de changé en France; il n'y a qu'un Français de plus."
"Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love lends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave."
"Nè spegner può per star nell'acqua il foco; Nè può stato mutar per mutar loco."
"Our images/feelings/thoughts have to be conflicted before we see the need for change."
"For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death."