Change is the only constant, which does not make it any easier to deal with. These quotes explore transformation — personal, social, political — and the uncomfortable truth that growth almost always requires leaving something familiar behind.
“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”
“I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.”
“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.”
“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.”
“A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.”
“Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.”
“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.”
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
“As you grow older, you change.”
“In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.”
“Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.”
“Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.”
“What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.”
“Dynamism is a function of change.”
“One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.”
“It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.”