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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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

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

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

Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.

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.

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.

Pain is the precursor to change.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.

Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

people are capable of profound metamorphosis, though unfortunately they rarely avail themselves of this genius, force of habit being an even greater enemy of change than cowardice.

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important

People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.

People change over the years, and that changes situations, for good and for bad.