“My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'”
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.
“When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.”
“My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.'”
“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.”
“The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
“In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?”
“We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.”
“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
“If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.”
“What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It's not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don't change the team and the game plan, we won't save our country.”
“A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.”
“If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.”
“A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption it is not a symbol, but a fraud.”
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.”