CHANGE QUOTES VI

quotations about change

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

TOM VILSACK

speech, Jan. 10, 2006


Many ... are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust that has built up over the years. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith in every country. You more than anyone have the ability to reimagine the world, to remake this world.

BARACK OBAMA

speech, Jun. 4, 2009


I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.

DAVID SEDARIS

Naked


Change in all things is sweet.

ARISTOTLE

Nicomachean Ethics


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.

SAUL ALINSKY

Rules for Radicals


Every generation gets a chance to change the world
Pity the nation that won't listen to your boys and girls
Cause the sweetest melody is the one we haven't heard

U2

"I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight"


The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

MAYA ANGELOU

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


Bottom line is, even if you see them coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So, what are we, helpless? Puppets? Nah. The big moments are gonna come, you can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that count. That's when you find out who you are.

WHISTLER

"Becoming: Part Two", Buffy the Vampire Slayer


It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Vague Thoughts on Art


Nothing is permanent. This is the central teaching of the Buddha. Not a career, not an institution, not a wife, not a tree ... All is change; change is the only truth.

PAOLO BACIGALUPI

The Windup Girl


Only out of stir and change is born new salvation. To deny that is to deny belief in man, to turn our backs on courage!

JOHN GALSWORTHY

Vague Thoughts on Art


One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

ANNE RICE

Pandora


The best way to understand something is to try to change it.

JEROME BRUNER

New York Times, June 7, 2016