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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Daily Quote:
"Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else." (Unknown, Source - Time and Time Management)

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Browse Quotations about Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
A rolling stone can gather no moss.
A rut is a grave with no ends.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
All movements go too far.
All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.
Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.
Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Change alone is unchanging.
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
Change is difficult but often essential to survival.
Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Constant change is here to stay.
Don't change horses while crossing a stream.
Don't fear change -- embrace it.
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Everything changes but change.
Everything changes, nothing remains without change.
Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.
Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.
Fear of change perplexes monarchs.