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Change...
Change happens, that is for sure, and not just in our modern, 21st century era. It seems that the stress of the new affects most people in every age. So the trick is not to resist it, but to go with it. The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.
‘Change in all things is sweet.’
‘Loss is nothing else
but change, and change is nature’s delight.’
‘Keep constantly in mind
in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes
already. The universe is change, life is understanding.’
‘Observe constantly
that all things take place by change.’
‘We must change in
order to survive.’
‘To exist is to change,
to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.’
‘If the people
don’t want to come out of the park, nobody’s going to stop them.’
‘Those who have changed
the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.’
‘Nothing we can do can
change the past, but everything we do changes
the future.’
‘If you can neither
accept it or change it, try to laugh at it.’
‘Weep not that the
world changes—did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.’
‘Do not cherish the
unworthy desire that the changeable might become
the unchanging.’
‘The best-laid schemes
o’mice an’ men gang aft agely.’
‘I am not now
That which I have been.’
‘Things don’t change.
You change your way of looking, that’s all.’
‘A great wind is
blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache.’
‘To improve is to
change. To be perfect is to change often.’
‘It takes a lot of courage
to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there
is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in
the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change
there is power.’
‘They must often change
who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.’
‘It is only the wisest
and the stupidest that do not change.’
‘The capacity of the
human mind for invention
far outstrips its ability to assimilate the changes
that inventions produce.’
‘The only way to change
our lives is by changing our minds.’
‘The world’s a scene of
changes,
and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.’
‘Become a student of
change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.’
‘It is not the
strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change.’
‘Since changes
are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn
enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them
in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled
from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.’
‘ In a progressive
country change is constant; change is inevitable.’
‘One cannot manage
change. One can only be ahead of it.’
‘All is change; all yields
its place and goes.’
‘All changes,
even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is
part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.’
‘When you’re finished
changing, you’re finished.’
‘You never change
things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
model that makes the existing model obsolete.’
— Richard. Buckminster
Fuller
‘In times of rapid
change, experience could be your worst enemy.’
‘You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.’
‘We must always change,
renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.’
‘Life has got a habit
of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to
change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions
for new ones, that is just about like trying to
milk a dead cow.’
‘Everything flows and
nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed... Cool things
become warm, the warm grows cool; the moist dries, the parched becomes
moist... It is in changing that things find repose.’
‘Nothing is permanent
but change.’
‘There is a certain
relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found
in travelling in a stagecoach, that; it is often a comfort to shift one’s
position, and be bruised in a new place.’
‘Change is not made
without inconvenience.’
‘Change is like putting
lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's
really angry.’
‘Plus ça change, plus
c’est la même chose.’ (The more things change, the more they are the same)
‘There is nothing more certain
and unchanging than uncertainty and change.’
‘Change is the law of
life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain
to miss future.’
‘Progress
is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.’
‘The world hates change
yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.’
‘The soft-minded man
always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an
almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest
pain is the pain of a new idea.’
‘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.’
‘You don’t get creative
by staying in the same place.’
— Andy Law
‘Are you willing to be
sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made
nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.’
‘If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.’
‘All things must change
To something new, to something strange.’
‘Security is mostly
superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a
whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no
safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring
adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free
spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.’
‘There is nothing more
difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its
success than to take the lead in the introduction of a
new order to things.’
‘One change leaves the
way open for the introduction of others.’
‘Never doubt
that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has.’
‘And it will fall out
as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you
will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces
others.’
‘When change is rapid
and problems abundant, society must be
creatively adaptive or fall further and further behind.’
‘All things change,
nothing perishes.’
— Ovid
‘Change does not change
tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge
and an opportunity, not a threat.’
‘You are so young, my
son, and, as the years go by, time
will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore
awhile from setting yourself up as judge
of the highest matters.’
— Plato
‘Man needs, for his
happiness, not only the enjoyment
of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.’
‘Change alone is
eternal, perpetual, immortal.’
‘Old fashions please me
best; I am not so nice
To change true rules for odd inventions.’
‘Progress
is impossible without change; and those who
cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.’
‘It is a bad plan that
admits of no modification.’
‘Things do not change;
we change.’
‘A competitive world
offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can
change.’
‘Change is not merely necessary
to life—it is life.’
‘Everyone thinks of
changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.’
‘It seldom happens that
a man changes his life through his habitual
reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed
to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old
paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the
change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.’
‘The altar cloth of one
aeon is the doormat of the next.’
‘If you do not change
direction, you may end up where you are heading.’
— Lao Tzu
‘The only way to make
sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.’
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