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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
Ezra Taft Benson
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My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.
Antoni Tàpies
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In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.
Andrew Young
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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering; the capacity for self-indulgence changes hands.
Tom Stoppard
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Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czesław Miłosz
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Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
G. I. Gurdjieff
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
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Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
Primo Levi
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Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
Regina Brett
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Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry Way Kendall
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers
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Ought I to say that the form of change is fixity, or more precisely, that change is an endless search for fixity? A nostalgia for inertia: indolence and its frozen paradises. Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. It is transition. But the moment I say transition, the spell is broken. Transition is not wisdom, but a simple going toward… Transition vanishes: only thus is it transition.
Octavio Paz
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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
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The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Ariel Durant
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Roughly, for me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
Joyce Cary
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When I am in my painting, I am not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a short of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.
Jackson Pollock
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Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
David Brin
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
Flannery O'Connor
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian Tracy
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For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
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Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.
Steven Pressfield
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All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. This revolution has produced the most powerful and diverse spur to innovation of any in modern times. Yet a set of ideas about a central aspect of this prosperity — "property" — confuses us. This confusion is leading us to change the environment in ways that will change the prosperity. Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.
Lawrence Lessig
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