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"The motivating force for change has to come from an energized, empowered public." - Paul Wellstone, fully Paul David Wellstone
"In order to change, one must first assume responsibility: one must commit oneself to some action. The word "responsibility" itself denotes that capability: "response"+"ability" - that is the ability to respond." - Irvin David Yalom
"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." - Abraham Harold Maslow
"If you want to bring a difficult relationship into the light of love, make up your mind to change your image of who both of you are." - Alan Cohen
"The reality of thoughts and the power they have to create and to change the world brings with it a supremely important realization: We can bless and we can heal." - Alan Cohen
"Defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change." - Alfred North Whitehead
"It is a tribute to the strength of the sheer craving for freshness, that change, whose justification lies in aim at the distant ideal, should be promoted by Art which is the adaptation of immediate Appearance for immediate Beauty. Art neglects the safety of the future for the gain of the present. In doing it is apt to render its Beauty thin. But after all, there must be some immediate harvest. The Good of the Universe cannot lie in indefinite postponement." - Alfred North Whitehead
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change and order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development." - Alfred North Whitehead
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"Religion will not gain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science." - Alfred North Whitehead
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order." - Alfred North Whitehead
"It's essential that we understand that taking care of the planet will be done as we take care of ourselves. You know that you can't really make much of a difference in things until you change yourself." - Alice Walker, fully Alice Malsenior Walker
"Future shock: the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time." - Alvin Toffler
"“Future Shock”… [is] the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time." - Alvin Toffler
"The responsibility for change… lies with us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical. This means fighting off the idea-assassins who rush forward to kill any new suggestion on grounds of its impracticality, while defending whatever now exists as practical, not matter how absurd, oppressive, or unworkable it may be. It means fighting for freedom of expression – the right of people to voice their ideas, even if heretical." - Alvin Toffler
"We believe that the most basic of all changes in human social organization have been the result of three processes. Starting 8,000 to 10,000 years ago, agriculture was invented in the Middle East – probably by a woman. That’s the First Wave. Roughly 250 years ago, the Industrial Revolution triggered a Second Wave of change. Brute-force technologies amplified human and animal muscle power and gave rise to an urban, factory-centered way of life. Sometime after World War II, a gigantic Third Wave began transforming the planet, based on tools that amplify mind rather than muscle. The Third Wave is bigger, deeper and faster than the other two. This is the civilization of the computer, the satellite and Internet." - Alvin Toffler
"Change is the process by which the future invades our lives." - Alvin Toffler
"The ultimate objective of social futurism [is] not merely the transcendence of technocracy and the substitution of more humane, more far-sighted, more democratic planning, but the subjection of the process of evolution itself to conscious human guidance. For this is the supreme instant, the turning point in history at which man either vanquishes the processes of change or vanishes, at which, from being the unconscious puppet of evolution he becomes either its victim or its master." - Alvin Toffler
"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward." - Amelia Earhart, fully Amelia Mary Earhart
"There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, born Anne Spencer Morrow
"The key to life is a balance in all things, including the perceptual filters of association and disassociation. We can associate or disassociate from anything we want. They key is to associate consciously, so it helps us. We learned that we are not born with beliefs, that they can change." - Anthony "Tony" Robbins
"Your values are your belief systems about right and wrong, good and bad. Our values are the things we all fundamentally need to move toward... Our values change when we change goals or self-image... There is no real success except in keeping your basic values." - Anthony "Tony" Robbins
"Desire not to change a man into something other than he is. For it is certain that good reasons, against which you can do nothing, constrain him to be thus and not otherwise. But you can impart a change to that which is already; for a man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you. And to limn its outline, so that it is evident to all, and to the man himself. Then, once he perceives it, he will accept it (having readily enough accepted it the day before) even though he has no special ardor to second him therein. And likewise once, by dint of having fixed his attention on it, it has been integrated within him, and indeed become a second nature, it will live the life of all things which seek to perpetuate and augment themselves." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?" - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress." - Anwar Sadat, fully Muhammad Anwar El Sadat
"When men hear imitations, even apart from the rhythms and tunes themselves, their feelings move in sympathy. Since then music is a pleasure, and virtue consists in rejoicing and loving and hating aright, there is clearly nothing which we are so much concerned to acquire and to cultivate as the power of forming right judgments and of taking delight in good dispositions and noble actions. Rhythm and melody supply imitations of anger and gentleness, and also of courage and temperance, and of all the qualities contrary to these, and of the other qualities of character, which hardly fall short of the actual affections, as we know form our own experience, for in listening to such strains our souls undergo a change. The habit of feeling pleasure or pain at mere representation is not far removed from the same feeling about realities." - Aristotle NULL
"All arts, that is, all productive forms of knowledge, are potencies; they are originative sources of change in another thing or in the artist himself considered as other." - Aristotle NULL
"The greater the power that we have to change the World into something nearer to our ideal, the greater becomes our distress at our failing to perform those beneficent and useful acts of creation which we know to be within our power." - Arnold J. Toynbee, fully Arnold Joseph Toynbee
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconscious with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives." - Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger
"On realizing one’s true Self one does not change into a different being but simply realizes that one is not a being at all but simply “Being”; one attains freedom from identification with this or any other body-mind complex. The speeding arrow of karma may hit the body, but one is not the body. The body is subject to karma but the pure being of one’s Self is not... A Realized Man sees repercussions that could be called destiny overtaking the body that he occupies, but it does not occur to him that they concern him, and therefore he feels no emotion towards them. His body is subject to destiny, but he is not." - Arthur W Osborn
"Essentially religion is not in history. The essence of religion is pure, timeless awareness; and since this is participation in the Immutable, it is by its very nature immune to history. Mentally and doctrinally, however, the awareness is explained differently indifferent religions. However, religion as an institution controlling life in every domain - philosophy, art, literature, social life, etc. - is subject to history. As an institution every religion changes, and the change is always a decline... a decline arrested by periodical restitutions." - Arthur W Osborn
"Spiritual realization involves unfoldment from within and takes little account of our conscious educational activities. The aim is not to change our nature but to realize deeply who we really are." - Arthur W Osborn
"All progress requires change but all change is not progress." - Author Unknown NULL
"I cannot change yesterday I can only make the most of today, and look with hope towards tomorrow." - Author Unknown NULL
"If you're not riding the wave of change--you'll find yourself beneath it." - Author Unknown NULL
"Never doubt that a group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." - Author Unknown NULL
"Rules for Being Human: You will learn lessons. There are no mistakes – only lessons. A lesson is repeated until it is learned. If you don’t learn easy lessons, they get harder. (Pain is the one way the universe gets your attention.) You’ll know you’ve learned a lesson when your actions change." - Author Unknown NULL
"There can be change without progress, but not progress without change." - Author Unknown NULL
"Unless the effectiveness of our learning is greater than the nature of change is unlikely to be equated with progress." - Author Unknown NULL
"The object of government is not to change men from rational beings into beasts or puppets, but to enable them to develop their minds and bodies in security, and to employ their reason unshackled; neither showing hatred, anger or deceit, nor watched with the eyes of jealousy and injustice. In fact, the true aim of government is liberty." -
"Characters never change. Opinions alter, characters are only developed." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
"Change is constant." - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield