I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.
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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
Constant change is here to stay.
Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.
I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot
It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Antisthenes
Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.
The doer alone learneth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
Julia Child
Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs
War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James Madison
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
The only people who like change are wet babies.
To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.
Death is softer by far than tyranny.
Aeschylus
Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.
Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.
When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.
You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.
In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
If youth knew if age could.
Sigmund Freud
Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
To believe in God is impossible; not to believe in Him is absurd.
Voltaire
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.
Steven Wright
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Benjamin Disraeli
He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
Plato
Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back in the shell.
Cass Canfield
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Samuel Butler
The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
William Butler Yeats
Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie.
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
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