This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Jane Goodall, fully Dame Jane Morris Goodall, born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall
And if we dare to look into those eyes, then we shall feel their suffering in our hearts. More and more people have seen that appeal and felt it in their hearts. All around the world there is an awakening of understanding and compassion, and understanding that reaches out to help the suffering animals in their vanishing homelands. That embraces hungry, sick, and desperate human beings, people who are starving while the fortunate among us have so much more than we need. And if, one by one, we help them, the hurting animals, the desperate humans, then together we shall alleviate so much of the hunger, fear, and pain in the world. Together we can bring change to the world, gradually replacing fear and hatred with compassion and love. Love for all living beings.
Awakening | Change | Compassion | Fear | Love | Pain | People | Suffering | Understanding | World |
Disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought... The people who live in fear of disease are the people who get it... Change of diet will not help a man who will not change his thoughts. When a man makes his thoughts pure, he no longer desires impure food... Clean thoughts make clean habits.
Joel S. Goldsmith, fully Joel Solomon Goldsmith
There is never a conflict with person or condition, but rather a false concept mentally entertanied “about” person, thing or condition. Therefore make the correction within yourself, rather than attempting to change anyone or anything in the without.
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Louis Agassiz, fully Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey into a man.
The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart.
John Wooden, fully John Robert Wooden
Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.
John Dickinson, pen name Fabius
What you keep by you, you may change and mend; But words once spoke can never be recall'd.
A successful future for America depends on the meaning we attach to being citizens of the same republic--a meaning shattered every time the left questions the intelligence of their opponents and the right questions the patriotism of those who don’t share their views. That success also will be measured by the depth of our commitment to each other—a commitment that begins in our neighborhoods and PTAs and town councils and swells upward from there. Our success rest on the shape and power of our vision--how can we pursue “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” when the nation is a battleground of uncompromising ideas and ideologies? We need to change what’s in our minds but above all we need to change what’s in our hearts.
Change | Commitment | Future | Ideas | Intelligence | Liberty | Meaning | Need | Patriotism | Power | Rest | Right | Success | Time | Will |
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Awe | Change | Experience | Life | Life |
John Holt, fully John Caldwell Holt
No one is more truly helpless, more completely a victim, than he who can neither choose nor change nor escape his protectors.
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John Wooden, fully John Robert Wooden
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
John Steinbeck, fully John Ernst Steinbeck
Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.
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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
In scientific thought we adopt the simplest theory which will explain all the facts under consideration and enable us to predict new facts of the same kind. The catch in this criterion lies in the world "simplest." It is really an aesthetic canon such as we find implicit in our criticisms of poetry or painting. The layman finds such a law as dx/dt = K(d^2x/dy^2) much less simple than "it oozes," of which it is the mathematical statement. The physicist reverses this judgment, and his statement is certainly the more fruitful of the two, so far as prediction is concerned. It is, however, a statement about something very unfamiliar to the plain man, namely, the rate of change of a rate of change.
Aesthetic | Change | Consideration | Law | Poetry | Prediction | Thought | Will | World | Thought |
If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading.
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Jack Welch, fully John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr.
Seven Point Program for Management by Leadership: 1. Develop a vision for the business. 2. Change the culture to achieve the vision. 3. Flatten the organization. 4. Eliminate bureaucracy. 5. Empower individuals. 6. Raise quality and efficiency. 7. Eliminate boundaries.