From year to year environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives but from evolutionary or geological perspectives what is happening is explosive change.
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there you can deal with that change.
Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative leaders change things.
Folks the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
If any man claims the Negro should be content let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it change your attitude.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change your field changes around you.
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
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.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that you know. I'm one of those people.
If you accept the expectations of others especially negative ones then you never will change the outcome.
For the past 33 years I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row I know I need to change something.
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Any change even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Action and reaction ebb and flow trial and error change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence fear; out of our fear clearer vision fresh hope. And out of hope progress.
If we don't change we don't grow. If we don't grow we aren't really living.
I can't change the direction of the wind but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes but you don't change at all. And that of course causes great confusion.
All change is not growth as all movement is not forward.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds and I very rarely change it.
Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
We can change our lives. We can do have and be exactly what we wish.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her like a bank note for two 20s.
You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.
My dad always said 'Don't worry what people think because you can't change it.'
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer you have to change that's the way it works.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change nor even to profit by it but to cause it.
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism you need to vote for a change in direction.
Without change something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin my body my mind and try to live my life and be happy.
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.
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
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.
The world hates change yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
If you want to change attitudes start with a change in behavior.
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
Loss is nothing else but change and change is Nature's delight.
In a free society government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
I don't know if you can change things but it's a drop in the ocean.
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality.
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
All things must change to something new to something strange.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change the way I see it is service to a fellow human being.
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change you will change.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
If you want to change the culture you will have to start by changing the organization.
Most women set out to try to change a man and when they have changed him they do not like him.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
In times of rapid change experience could be your worst enemy.
This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture not politics that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently we must be willing to change our belief system let the past slip away expand our sense of now and dissolve the fear in our minds.
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Willingness to change is a strength even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so one could blame the companies but really economically they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed it's the only thing that ever has.
One is called to live nonviolently even if the change one works for seems impossible.
The entrepreneur always searches for change responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity.
Certainly travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on deep and permanent in the ideas of living.
If the facts don't fit the theory change the facts.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
All is connected no one thing can change by itself.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
When you forgive you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.
If net neutrality goes away it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
There are three constants in life change choice and principles.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean this is not just baby gloom.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness conscience independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom The power to choose to respond to change.
I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.