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To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.

To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

To think that the world can ever change without changes in our mental models is folly.

Touching Hearts, Changing Lives.

To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.

Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

Trouble is part of your life

True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems.

True health begins with your thoughts. Thinking about comfort, strength, flexibility and youthfulness attracts those qualities into your life and body. Dwelling on illness, fear, disease and pain does just the opposite. Your work is to notice and change your thoughts and move them in the direction of health and happiness.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Two of the biggest drivers of airline profit are change fees and baggage fees.

Typically, people who exercise start eating better and becoming more productive at work. They smoke less and show more patience with colleagues and family. They use their credit cards less frequently and say they feel less stressed. It's not completely clear why. But for many people, exercise is a keystone habit that triggers widespread change.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow's world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.

Unless you're lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.

Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.

Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

very few people change after well say seven or seventeen. Not really. They get more this or more that and of course look a bit different. But inside they are the same.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly.

Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

Vision with action can change the world.

Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way ... You don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

We all have a moral obligation to leave this world a better place than the world that we've found.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.

We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.