Change Quotes - Page 51

Thou art sore troubled in mind for the people in the world’s sake: loves thou that people better than he that made them?

[Tolstoy] denounced [many historians'] lamentable tendency to simplify. The experts stumble onto a battlefield, into a parliament or public square, and demand, "Where is he? Where is he?" "Where is who?" "The hero, of course! The leader, the creator, the great man!" And having found him, they promptly ignore all his peers and troops and advisors. They close their eyes and abstract their Napoleon from the mud and the smoke and the masses on either side, and marvel at how such a figure could possibly have prevailed in so many battles and commanded the destiny of an entire continent. "There was an eye to see in this man," wrote Thomas Carlyle about Napoleon in 1840, "a soul to dare and do. He rose naturally to be the King. All men saw that he was such."But Tolstoy saw differently. "Kings are the slaves of history," he declared. "The unconscious swarmlike life of mankind uses every moment of a king's life as an instrument for its purposes." Kings and commanders and presidents did not interest Tolstoy. History, his history, looks elsewhere: it is the study of infinitely incremental, imperceptible change from one state of being (peace) to another (war).The experts claimed that the decisions of exceptional men could explain all of history's great events. For the novelist, this belief was evidence of their failure to grasp the reality of an incremental change brought about by the multitude's infinitely small actions.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment my life changed.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

Why the law of our forefathers are brought to nought, and the written covenants come to none effect-

You have resources and assets simply by virtue of breathing, being safe, and being alive. In addition to these birthrights, you are hopefully blessed with time, energy, loved ones, friendships, health, money, intelligence, and untapped resources. Are you reinvesting in what matters most?

And when the clouds do clear awayGet a momentary chance to seeThe thing I've been trying to beat to deathThe soft creature that I used to beThe better animal I used to be

Quantities are all around you and the exercise of quantifying and re-quantifying is how you can measure aspects of your life. How are things adding up? What needs to be subtracted to relieve stress and promote healthy well-being? Measure the progress you are making on your hopes, dreams, goals, and strategies to move forward faster.

Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don’t have a backup plan for living. Live today. […] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That’s the only backup you’ll need.

Never feel intimidated by defeat nor death, but rather intimidate life with your dreams.

You don't have to feel grateful in order to be grateful.

...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm.

Love not only transform your mental and emotional character/attitude, it also shifts your physical being, which goes thru subtle changes also. Love is POWERFUL! God is love.

The development of civilization was marked by constant changes. This will continue – therefore, the future will belong to people ready for change.

The researchers argued that an orderly environment fosters a sense of responsibility not so much by deterrence (since Groningen police rarely penalize litterers) as by the signaling of a social norm: This is the kind of place where people obey the rules.

Good times don’t last and bad times don’t stay forever.

When you change your dress,you want to look your best.But when you change your lover,it's simply for another.

The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing.

so far as you continue to entertain what makes you unhappy, you shall always dance to the tune of what will make you unhappy. A mindset change can cause a great change.

...4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she longs to quench her limitless thirst, but those moments are so fleeting and their limit is her unrest. Her bones are hollow and heavy as she takes a single step, and in that instant she is gone, blinded by the flash of a stray ray of light, her eyes close in that moment and stars flood her night. She falls forward slow, counting the half seconds of her descent. Her eyes stay closed, her thoughts are spent.

My heart may be bruised and scarred, bleeding slow drip-drip with every thump and every other thump-thump that widens unsealable wounds. My heart is the strongest part of me. It's survived everything I've thrown at it and much more than it should.

You must change in order to survive.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

It was the challenge of life too, was it not? People could never be fully understood. They were ever changing, different people at different times and under different circumstances and influences. And always growing, always creating themselves anew.How impossible it was to know another human being.How impossible to know even oneself.

Barriers were being torn down. Where Freddie Mercury was trying to keep his homosexuality from the front pages, Boy George was openly & outrageously gay.

Determination and willingness can change the situation when we are distructed

If we lived the plans we do more as bets than as forecasts, we would be less anxious and more prepared for the unexpected.

I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

Change your attitude and you change your life. You cannot control what happens to you in your life, but you can always control how you respond to it. The way you choose to respond is a reflection of your attitude. By changing your attitude, you also change your perspective and change your life.

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

It was a slow fall, through warm experiences and good laughs. It didn't even feel like love until I got to the end. Even then, it was not the hard surface of rock, but the scorching embrace of more.

Lets try to put last year's problems behind us and make what's bright now, for last year is not now.

Being wrong opens us up to the possibility of change. Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

Love and Hate are two of the most used, abused, and misused words of mankind.

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid boundless colored mutability!-Life in the making?

You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.

Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time.

One man can change the world, look at Adolf Hitler.

When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

Every change, those subtle-slow, and those drastically sudden, has brought me into myself.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

To be undefeated, to primer is to learn the game for not just your talents but for the game itself.

Every journey towards change begins with awareness.

What is actual is actual only for one time and only for one place.

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

Change Management can become more successful with people at the core of change, the cause of change and the purpose of change.

Success doesn't teach as many lessons as failure

Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

Heroes take journeys confront dragons and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge events which had quite probably not happened, you remembered the details of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, and there were long blank periods to which you could assign nothing. Everything had been different then.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it's usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

How do we perceive what’s important in life, from what we once thought to what we think now, how does it change?

That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes.

Well-intentioned but ill-informed actions usually compromise quality.

The importance of reviewing is apparent and proven. However, the majority of people do not do it in their own lives. Do you want to live your best life now? Take deliberate action and begin to REVIEW where you have been, where you are now, and where you would like to be.

Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity.

Decide what your truth is. Then live it.

If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.