Best 6456 quotes in «change quotes» category

Choose the best player for every position, and you'll end up not with a strong XI, but with 11 strong 1's.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of dimension that’s incompatible with the status quo; we do not accept the world as it is, but we insist on the world becoming the way that God wants it to be. And the Kingdom of God is different from the patterns of this world.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

Climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.

Colours change: in the morning light, red shines out bright and clear and the blues merge into their surroundings, melting into the greens; but by the evening the reds loose their piquancy, embracing a quieter tone and shifting toward the blues in the rainbow. Yellow flowers remain bright, and white ones become luminous, shining like ghostly figures against a darkening green background.

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

Competence is the enemy of change!

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one's body and train one's mind.

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too.

Consistency is a human word, but it certainly expresses nothing human.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Courage changes things for the better...[With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.

Creation is a sentient and instinctual flow that determines where to go and what to change or omit.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.

Creativity doesn't just happen - you make it happen. Changing daily routines is one way to access creativity.

Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.

Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

cross that person off your invitation list.

Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time. It changes when networks of relationships form among people who share a common cause and vision of what's possible. This is good news for those of us intent on creating a positive future. Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections. We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits. Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage and commitment that lead to broad-based change.

Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.