A mind that is interested in changing…is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I’m certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won’t get anywhere. ~ John Cage

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Tomas A Kempis

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have—and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving it up. ~ Belasco & Stayer, Flight of the Buffalo, 1994

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. ~ Washington Irving

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.~ Jawaharlal Nehru

As a change agent, the power you've got is the power of new ideas. ~ Clive Meanwell

You've got to get people to believe that change is possible... You have to show that you can fight things successfully even if you don't win. ~ Winona Laduke, Punk Planet, Sept-Oct 2003

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~ Tennessee Williams, IBD, 1/22/04

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it. ~ Henry Miller

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~ Albert Einstein

Adjust to changing times, but cling to unchanging principles. ~ Jimmy Carter

If you're changing the status quo, whatever move you make is disrupting something else. ~ James D. Wolfensohn

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | MORE