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One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

One of the drivers of displacement and potential conflict over the next 10 to 20 years will be climate (change) - resource scarcity, climate change is going to compound the cocktail that's driving war and displacement.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you're wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is. It gave us an understanding of simultaneity. It gave us the ability to synchronize clocks from one place to another. It made it possible for the world to have standard time and time zones and then Daylight Savings Time and then after that jetlag. All of that is due to the telegraph because, before that, the time was whatever it was wherever you were.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

One thing I certainly never was made for, and that is to put principles on and off at the dictation of a party, as a lackey changes his livery at his master's command.

One very fundamental thing has not changed and I realized that it will never change... is that I really need to go home and practice.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

Only love and death will change all things.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

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.

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide

Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

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.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Our goal is not to assume leadership of existing institutions, but rather to render them irrelevant. We don't want to take over the state or change its policies. We want to render its laws unenforceable. We don't want to take over corporations and make them more 'socially responsible.' We want to build a counter-economy of open-source information, neighborhood garage manufacturing, permaculture, encrypted currency and mutual banks, leaving the corporations to die on the vine along with the state. We do not hope to reform the existing order. We intend to serve as its grave-diggers.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

Over events, we may have some control, but over the law of life's progress none.

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.