Quotes about change

„I was trying to figure out what I’m doing, and that was the first time I was constantly being kicked down for doing that. When I didn’t know, I just wanted to say, ‘This is what I want, this is where I am in my professional life, things changed in my personal life, things changed in my heart — everything.’ And people just thought, ‘Alright, this is what we think.’ And yeah, I made some decisions that weren’t great as well, and so did he and that’s why we went through all that to only make us better. And he has heard [the song] and he has seen the video, and it’s something that I feel like girls need hear, and it’s something I’m willing to share with people.“

—  Selena Gomez American singer and actress 1992

„What I really wanted to do was just have this sonic boom, with a flash, and have the level change on you instantly.“

—  Naoto Ohshima Japanese video game artist 1964

Source: Sega-16 – Sega Stars: Naoto Ōshima http://www.sega-16.com/2012/01/sega-stars-naoto-oshima/
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„While the others had got married and moved out to suburbia, I had stayed in London and got into the arts scene through friends like Robert Fraser and Barry Miles and papers like The International Times. We opened the Indica gallery with John Dunbar, Peter Asher and people like that. I heard about people like John Cage, and that he’d just performed a piece of music called 4’33” (which is completely silent) during which if someone in the audience coughed he would say, ‘See?’ Or someone would boo and he’d say, ‘See? It’s not silence—it’s music.’ I was intrigued by all of that. So these things started to be part of my life. I was listening to Stockhausen; one piece was all little plink-plonks and interesting ideas. Perhaps our audience wouldn’t mind a bit of change, we thought, and anyway, tough if they do! We only ever followed our own noses—most of the time, anyway. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was one example of developing an idea.“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 212

„And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?“

—  Paul McCartney English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

„If it is a dying craft we can't do anything about it. Civilisation moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941

on the topic of hand-drawn animation (2005) The Guardian article http://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/14/japan.awardsandprizes
On Animation

„A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.“

—  William Makepeace Thackeray novelist 1811 - 1863

Source: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself

„Failure is not fatal but failure to change might be.“

—  John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010

„People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…“

—  Richard Yates, book Revolutionary Road

Source: Revolutionary Road

„Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.“

—  Reinhold Niebuhr American protestant theologian 1892 - 1971

„Now it is time to stand up and fight back.… There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes.“

—  Khalid Abdul Muhammad American activist 1948 - 2001

Speech at Columbia University, quoted in Chicago Sun-Times (30 January 1994) "Some like Muhammad's Boldness"

„Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.“

—  Richard Hooker English bishop and Anglican Divine 1554 - 1600

Quoted by Samuel Johnson in the preface http://books.google.com/books?id=j-UIAAAAQAAJ&q=change+%22is+not+made+without+inconvenience+even+from+worse+to+better%22&pg=PT8#v=onepage to A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

„To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.“

—  Henri Bergson French philosopher 1859 - 1941

„In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.“

—  Dorothy Parker American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893 - 1967

Source: The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

„The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.“

—  Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952

„We live in a world of disposable music; fast-food music without any content… Music is not fireworks, music is feeling. So let's try to change this and bring music back which is really what matters.“

—  Salvador Sobral Portuguese singer 1989

"Portugal's Eurovision triumph", Euronews (14 May 2017) http://www.euronews.com/2017/05/14/portugal-has-won-the-2017-eurovision-song-contest

„I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

„There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

3 May 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Original: (nl) Ik geloof nooit dat de oorlog de schuld is alleen van de grote mannen, van de regeerders en kapitalisten. O neen, de kleine man doet het net zo goed graag, anders zouden de volkeren er toch al lang tegen in opstand zijn gekomen! Er is nu eenmaal in de mensen een drang tot vernieling, een drang tot doodslaan, tot vermoorden en razen en zolang de gehele mensheid, zonder uitzondering, geen grote metamorphose heeft ondergaan, zal de oorlog woeden, zal alles wat opgebouwd, aangekweekt en gegroeid is, weer geschonden en vernietigd worden, waarna de mensheid opnieuw moet beginnen.
Context: I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

„we cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.“

—  Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987

Source: On Becoming a Person

„Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short. For thousands of years it has existed and has been growing older; but in the earlier part of this period it cannot boast of any continuous progress toward a riper and richer development. In the fourth century before our era that giant thinker, Aristotle, built it up into an edifice comparing very favorably with any other science of that time. But this edifice stood without undergoing any noteworthy changes or extensions, well into the eighteenth or even the nineteenth century. Only in recent times do we find an advance, at first slow but later increasing in rapidity, in the development of psychology.“

—  Hermann Ebbinghaus German psychologist 1850 - 1909

Source: Psychology: An elementary textbook, 1908, p. 3: Partly cited in: Edwin Boring (1929) A History of Experimental Psychology p. ix