The easier you can communicate the faster change happens. ibid.
It was lack of understanding of the scientific reasoning behind Apollo that killed it. That and the desire we all seem to have developed for novelty. ibid.
It looks like the rate of change is going to become even more confusing. ibid.
So it is a case then of never have so many people understood so little about so much? Or maybe I’m wrong. ibid.
Now we don’t even know if we can go on expecting a rising standing of living. ibid.
Gut reaction: and it’s almost always dangerously wrong. ibid.
The factors for change have become more and more theoretical. ibid.
The key to why things change is the key to everything. How easy is it for knowledge to spread? ibid.
Scientific knowledge is hard to take because it removes the reassuring crutches of opinion and ideology. ibid.
The key to change is to let go of fear. Rosanne Cash
There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction. Winston Churchill
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. Richard Nixon
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. Carl Rogers
Change we can believe in. Barack Obama
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That’s not the kind of change we can believe in. John McCain
Like it or not everything is changing. The result will be the most wonderful experience in the history of man, or the most horrible enslavement you can imagine. Bill Cooper
The way to change it was the exact opposite of waiting to see if a scientific experiment would work out. It was for human beings to involve themselves in the struggle on the side of the oppressed. Marx’s life was a model of that involvement. In his youth, in quick succession, he was thrown out of Germany, Belgium and France, because he threw himself into the struggles of workers in all three countries. In France he associated closely with the fighting elements in the working class, and never forgot his admiration for them. Finally in 1849, aged 31, he came to England (where there was no immigration control) and settled here for the rest of his life. Paul Foot, Karl Marx: The Best Hated Man
That was the best deliverance of all, as she saw it, sitting there, quiet. That change will rule the earth and the sky and the waters underneath the earth. Change, whose face she once feared to see, whose right hand was Death and whose left hand Life might be stayed by none of the dreams of men, love, hate, compassion, anger or pity, gods or devils or wild crying to the sky. He passed and re-passed in the ways of the wind, Deliverer, Destroyer and Friend in one. Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Jeremiah 13:23
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no-one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus
Change is all things is sweet. Aristotle
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at? Lord Byron
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. Harold Wilson
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
66,624. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. (Change & New) Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. Brian Tracy
The world has changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost for none now live who remember it. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring 2001 starring Elijah Wood & Ian McKellen & Viggo Mortensen & Liv Tyler & Sean Astin & Cate Blanchett & John Rhys-Davis & Dominic Monaghan & Orlando Bloom & Christopher Lee & Hugo Weaving & Sean Bean & Ian Holm & Andy Serkis et al, director Peter Jackson, voice opening captions
The world is changing. Who now has the strength to stand against the armies of Isengard and Mordor? To stand against the might of Sauron and Saruman and the union of the two towers? Together, Lord Sauron, we shall rule this Middle-Earth. The old world will burn in the fires of industry. The forests will fall. A new order will rise. We will drive the machinery of war with the sword and the spear and the iron fist of the Orc. We have only to remove those who oppose us. The Lord of the Rings II: Two Towers 2002 starring Elijah Wood & Ian McKellan & Viggo Mortensen & Liv Tyler & Sean Astin & Cate Blanchett & John Rhys-Davies & Bernard Hill & Christopher Lee & Billy Boyd & Dominic Monaghan & Orlando Bloom & Hugo Weaving & Karl Urban & Sean Bean & Andy Serkis, director Peter Jackson, Saruman the White
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead, attributed, cited Donald Keys
I do believe painting can change the world. David Hockney, televised interview, BBC 2015
We can change things. We can make things better. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1994 starring Robert deNiro & Kenneth Branagh & Helena Bonham Carter & Ian Holm & Rory Jennings & Tom Hulce & John Cleese & Aidan Quinn & Richard Briers & Robert Hardy & Christina Cutall & Celia Imrie & Cherie Lunghi & Charles Wyn-Davies & Richard Bonneville et al, director Kenneth Branagh, Victor to Professor
Change is coming. Maybe you heard? What do you want me to say? There’s better ways to do things. Boardwalk Empire s5e4: Cuanto, Charlie to Capone, HBO 2014
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert Kennedy
Some of the latest figures on inequality are breathtaking; we do live in a fundamentally unfair society and a run-down democracy. There must be change. Will Hutton, The State to Come preface
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change. Muhammad Ali, cited Don’t Stop Believing: Pop Culture and Religio
I am a little concerned about all of these changes. The Office US s6e15: Sabre, Christian Slater, Michael to new boss, NBC 2009
The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul – desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
They said psychoanalytical thinking could make for the betterment of society. Because you could change the way the mind functioned. And you take the ways in which people did hurtful things to themselves and others and alter them by enlarging their understanding. And this was the vision psychoanalysis brought. That you could really change people. And that you change them in almost limitless ways. Dr Robert Wallerstein, psychoanalyst Menninger Clinic
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. Carl Jung, Vom Werden der Personlichkeit, 1932
Same as it ever was. Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime
Renew your brilliance. It is the privilege of the Phoenix. Excellence grows old and so does fame. Custom wears down our admiration, and a mediocre novelty can conquer the greatest eminence in its old age. So be reborn in courage, in intellect, in happiness, and in all else. Dare to renew your brilliance, dawning many times, like the sun, only changing your surroundings. Withhold it and make people miss it; renew it and make them applaud. Baltasar Gracian, 1601-58, The World of Worldly Wisdom
Satire doesn’t affect change. P J O’Rourke