This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment… I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.
Age | Better | Change | Circumstances | Man | Manners | Means | Men | Mind | Progress | Reverence | Sacred | Society | Wisdom | Society | Think | Truths |
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Our goal is to create a beloved community, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.
Change begins by not trying to change. What you imagine you must do in order to change yourself is often the very force that keeps you precisely the way you are… Beneath all the layers of wanting to be different, self-dissatisfaction, pretense, charade, and denial is a self. This self is a living, dynamic force within everyone. And if you could remain still long enough here, now, in this very place, you would discover who you are. And by discovering who you are, you would be at last free to discover who you yet also might be.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and wait for somebody else to do what he is loath to do himself.
Change | Experience | Individual | Will |
Paul Kennedy, fully Paul Michael Kennedy
The forces of change facing the world could be so far-reaching, complex, and interactive that they call for nothing less than the reeducation of humankind.
Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung
If there is anything we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
The quality of a person’s life is directly proportional to the degree of responsibility he takes for his own life and the commitment he makes to change for the better. Don’t be afraid of pains and sufferings. They are divine gifts for our growth.
Better | Change | Commitment | Growth | Life | Life | Responsibility | Afraid |
J.W. Marriott, Jr., fully John Willard "Bill" Marriott, Jr.
Companies that don’t risk anything will inevitably find themselves falling behind those that do. You can lead change or it can lead you.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
Government consists mainly in so keeping your subjects that they shall be neither able nor disposed to injure you; and this is done by depriving them of all means of injuring you, or by bestowing such benefits upon them that it would not be reasonable for them to desire any change of fortune.
Change | Desire | Fortune | Government | Means |
Randy Pausch, fully Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
Storytelling can be a powerful agent of personal transformation. The right stories can open our hearts and change who we are.