Change Quotes
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Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.
Eugene Burger
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Similarly, the understanding that one can get more change in a family or organization by working with the motivated members (the strengths) in the system than by focusing on the symptomatic or recalcitrant members totally obliterates the search for answers to the question of how to motivate the unmotivated.
Edwin H. Friedman
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Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.
Seth Godin
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Grant me the patience with changes that take time, appreciation of all that I have, tolerance of those with different struggles, and the strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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I say, “I hate this ‘keepin’ it real’ stuff. What’s it all about, anyway? Real is what is. If you have to keep something the way it is, then it’s not going with the natural flow. That’s lying. I mean, if you can’t change because you think this is the way it always was and anything else would be phony, that’s stupid.
Angela Johnson
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The main thing you can change is how you perceive yourself. Stop looking in the mirror and realize that youre living for yourself, not other people.
Amanda Seyfried
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There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
Susan L. Taylor
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Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.
Bill Crawford
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Can it then be doubted, but that God, who is infinitely fine Spirit, and withal intelligent, can make and change all species and kind of body as he pleaseth? But I dare not say, that this is the way by which God Almighty worketh, because it is past my apprehension: yet it serves very well to demonstrate, that the omnipotence of God implieth no contradiction.
Thomas Hobbes
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Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway.
Jenny Holzer
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It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.
Eric Roth
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Things change. You can try to slow it down but you can’t ’cause this crazy world only spins one way. I swear the only thing that always stays the same is things change.
Carly Pearce
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As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.
Richard Linklater
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Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.
William H. Calvin
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Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
Simon Mainwaring
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Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.
Evan Esar
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This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.
Emma Stone
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I believe strongly that social change isn't just about demonstrations in the street against the wrongs in society. There is also the path of the social innovator who creates new institutions and the path of the reformer who goes within an institution and makes incremental changes.
Corinne McLaughlin
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Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
Stephen Covey
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.
Anne Holm
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Great change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over & release control over what you don't.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Carbon-free energy is simply something we have to do. The time for talk is past. If we turn around net carbon emissions by 2020 rather than 2040, we get another 2° of fever rather than 3° - and that's a big difference.
William H. Calvin