Quotes about change page 22
“Grace changes us and change is painful".”
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer
Included as a quotation in The Great Quotations (1977) by George Seldes, p. 35, this appears to be a paraphrase of a summation of arguments of Bruno's speech in a debate at the College of Cambray (25 May 1588) which are not clearly presented as a direct translation of his statements:
: In an inspired speech Bruno, through the interpreter, Jean Hennequin, of Paris, declared the discovery of numberless worlds in the One Infinite Universe. Nothing was more deplorable, declared he, than the habit of blind belief, for of all other things it hinders the mind from recognizing such matters as are in themselves clear and open. It was proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. However, he cautioned that they should not be influenced by the fervor of speech, but by the weight of his argument and the majesty of truth.
:* Coulson Turnbull in Life and Teachings of Giordano Bruno : Philosopher, Martyr, Mystic 1548 — 1600 (1913), p. 41
Disputed
“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.”
Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 15
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter
Variant: Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: One
“The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
Letter to Augusta Gregory (22 November 1902), from James Joyce by Richard Ellmann (1959) [Oxford University Press, 1983 edition, <small> ISBN 0-195-03381-7</small>] (p. 107)
“Trust me, I'm telling you stories…. I can change the story. I am the story.”
Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
Source: Written on the Body
“Whenever I look at me, all I see are things I'd like to change.”
Alyson Nöel (1965) writer
Source: Everlasting
“… a man's plans are meant to be changed for a beautiful woman.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Genuine Lies
“The moment of change is the only poem.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) American poet, essayist and feminist
“Sometimes a change of perspective is all it takes to see the light.”
Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol
Source: The Lost Symbol
“The thing about changing the world… Once you do it, the world's all different.”
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home
“What we find changes who we become.”
Peter Morville (1950) British businessman
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Source: Power & Light
“Time does not change us it just unfolds us”
Max Frisch (1911–1991) Swiss playwright and novelist
Sketchbook 1946-1949
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
Address to World's Salesmanship Congress http://books.google.com/books?id=w0IOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA286&dq=%22want+to+make+enemies,+try+to+change+something%22, Detroit (10 July 1916) <br class="br">1910s
Anatole France book The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Tous les changements, même les plus souhaités ont leur mélancolie, car ce que nous quittons, c'est une partie de nous-mêmes; il faut mourir à une vie pour entrer dans une autre.
Pt. II, ch. 4
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881)
“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
"Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907) as translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke
Source: Intellectual Autobiography: Ideas on Literature, Philosophy and Religion
“The only wishes that will ever change you are the kind that may, at any moment, eat you whole.”
Janette Rallison (1966) American writer
Source: My Fair Godmother
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
1800s, First Inaugural Address (1801)
Source: The Inaugural Speeches and Messages of Thomas Jefferson, Esq.: Late President of the United States: Together with the Inaugural Speech of James Madison, Esq. ...
“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”
Kurt Lewin (1890–1947) German-American psychologist
Attributed to Kurt Lewin in: Charles W. Tolman (1996) Problems of Theoretical Psychology - ISTP 1995. p. 31.
“You couldn't know how much going away had changed you until you tried to go home.”
Cassandra Clare (1973) American author
Source: The Lost Herondale
“Wind is lord and change is sovereign of the strand.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”
Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor
Source: I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame
“Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
“I can’t write five words but that I change seven.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
Economics, Peace and Laughter (1971), p. 50
“Leadership, on the other hand, is about creating change you believe in.”
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
“Small changes can make huge destination differences.”
Sean Covey (1964) author; business executive
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States
Gerhard Gschwandtner, Great Thoughts to Sell By: Quotes to Motivate You to Success, McGraw-Hill Professional, 2007, ISBN 0071475990, p. 89.
Attributed
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Luke and Clary, pg. 325
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“agony sometimes changes
form
but
it never ceases for
anybody.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.”
Matsuri Hino Japanese manga artist
Source: ヴァンパイア騎士 7
“the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done”
John Galsworthy (1867–1933) English novelist and playwright
“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”
Marc Bekoff (1945) American biologist
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
“Things which do not grow and change are dead things.”
Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States
Emil Ludwig (1881–1948) German writer
Die Entscheidung, sich zum ersten Mal zu küssen, ist die wichtigste in jeder Liebesbeziehung. Es verändert die Beziehung von zwei Menschen wesentlich stärker als letzendlich die Kapitulation; denn dieser Kuss trägt die Kapitulation schon in sich.
Of Life and Love (2005), p. 29 [Über das Glück und die Liebe, 1940]
Sarah Dessen book Just Listen
Variant: because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.
Source: Just Listen
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Travis Parker, Proloque, p. 3
2000s, The Choice (2007)
Max Horkheimer (1895–1973) German philosopher and sociologist
Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 162.
David Morrison (1956) Australian army general
Address at the International Women's Day Conference (2013)
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1963, Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
Variant: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Documents on International Affairs, 1963, Royal Institute of International Affairs, ed. Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, p. 36.
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
In a live interview with Walter Cronkite of CBS News, on the day of the first moonwalk (20 July 1969)
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, Volume I (1907–1949): Learning Curve (2010)
David D. Levine (1961) science fiction writer
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 7, “Calculating a New Course” (p. 95)
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Robert J. Gordon (1940) American economist
Source: The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 2016, p. 1 ; Lead paragraph
Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer
Engineering Souls http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_sndgs03.html (March 22, 2007). <br class="br">City Journal (1998 - 2008)
Steve Wozniak (1950) American inventor, computer engineer and programmer
Explaining his comment that now "Every PC is a Macintosh", "Letters-General Questions Answered" p. 105 http://www.woz.org/letters/general/105.html <br class="br">Woz.org files
Gerardine DeSanctis (1954–2005) American organizational theorist
Gerardine DeSanctis, Brad M. Jackson, in: Coordination of information technology management: team-based structures and computer-based communication systems http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1189653, Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and organization design Volume 10 Issue 4, March 1994, pp 85-110.
Anthony Watts (1958) American television meteorologist
Global Warming on Mars? http://wattsupwiththat.com/2006/12/20/global-warming-on-mars/, wattsupwiththat.com, December 20, 2006. <br class="br">2006