Change & Transformation: Change Quotes

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"Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself"

Natalie Wood, Actress

"The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes"

Salman Rushdie, Novelist

"The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends"

Joan Didion, Author

"On the contrary, a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever, but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"

Dorothy Day, Activist

"Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort"

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Royalty

"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it"

Raoul Vaneigem, Philosopher

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens"

Fay Weldon, Novelist

"The West is now closed"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

Frederick Jackson Turner

"There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection"

Agnetha Faltskog, Musician

Agnetha Faltskog

"Certainly another Brad Sherman might be annoying, but it isn't something society doesn't know how to deal with. But a new level of human being is something else"

Brad Sherman, Politician

"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it"

Kurt Lewin, Psychologist

"What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years"

John Fischer, Sculptor

"Change, when it comes, cracks everything open"

Dorothy Allison, Writer

"All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Nothing else in the world, not all the armies, is so powerful as an idea whose time has come"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

W. Somerset Maugham

"With someone like Barack Obama, I think the whole America, the whole world will coalesce. Every election is about change, and change takes a long time because there are big issues that can't be changed overnight. But the one thing that will change dramatically is how we're viewed around the world. Once Obama is in there, the world will view Americans in an entirely different light. And that, to me, is a good thing"

Rob Reiner, Director

Rob Reiner

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

Leo Tolstoy

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek"

Barack Obama, President

Barack Obama

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"All things must change to something new, to something strange"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't"

Josh Billings, Comedian

Josh Billings

"Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir

"To destroy is always the first step in any creation"

E. E. Cummings, Poet

E. E. Cummings

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