CHANGE QUOTES II
quotations about change
Change. We don't like it. We fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. It hurts to grow; anybody who tells you it doesn't is lying. But here's the truth: sometimes the more things change the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Sometimes change is everything.
DR. MEREDITH GREY
"A Change Is Gonna Come", Grey's Anatomy
I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice in Wonderland
You must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.
ROGER ZELAZNY
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming
Oh heavy change.
The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.
ROBINSON JEFFERS
"The Last Conservative"
Days change. Seasons change. People don't change.
JACK MOSLEY
16 Blocks
Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.
PAUL MCAULEY
The Quiet War
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.
JAMES BALDWIN
"As Much Truth As One Can Bear", New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962
Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. I know that's impossible, but it's too bad anyway.
J. D. SALINGER
The Catcher in the Rye
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. LAING
introduction, The Politics of Experience
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.
ECKHART TOLLE
A New Earth
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.
WOODY HARRELSON
Go Further
Change demands new learning.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
The Change Masters
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
ANDY WARHOL
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
One cause of misery is the inability to change.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
JOHN STEINBECK
Sweet Thursday
Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating.
M.F. RYAN
O Magazine, Jan. 2007
The people who keep back change are often exasperating. But they have their work to perform, highly important work, too. Their very opposition, besides helping to weed out the weak ideas, gives the true ideas greater strength. For an idea is not worth much unless it can sturdily make its way through opposition and display toughness of fiber.
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Change", Reactions and Other Essays
Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always and everywhere at work; it strikes through causes and effects, and leaves nothing fixed and permanent.
MARCUS AURELIUS
Meditations
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
GEORGE ELIOT
Felix Holt
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.
ERIC HOFFER
attributed, Architectural Record, volume 181