It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women — a new job, a new town, a divorce — which really shape them, like the chapter headings in a biography, but a long, slow mutation of emotion, hidden, all-penetrative; something by which they may be so taken up that the practical outward changes of their lives in the world, noted with surprise, scandal, or envy by others, pass almost unnoticed by themselves. —Nadine Gordimer More about this quote Tags: attention progress aging change emotion surprise distraction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This increasingly intelligent, fast-moving civilization needs to be applying some of its intelligence to things that change slowly. . . . If we are constantly tending to the immediate, day-to-day problems, we'll lose that sense of the long term, and then we could be really sorry. —Stewart Brand More about this quote Tags: intelligence time perception perspective change civilization Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Romania had been under communist rule since 1945, but it was after Ceausescu came to power in 1965 that life really began to deteriorate. . . . Then, one night in the late 1980s, a group of men dressed as street sweepers draped the statue of Lenin in Bucharest with big truck tires and set them on fire. It was a bold and daring act in a country where, it was said, for every Romanian on the street there were two secret police officers. The next morning traffic was detoured while workers from nearby factories were brought in to clean the statue with razor blades. That day I realized that change was possible. —Florin Ion Firimita More about this quote Tags: history power change communism daring Romania Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: history power change authority fighting obedience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. —Dwight D. Eisenhower More about this quote Tags: change influence USA Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We started from scratch, every American an immigrant who came because he wanted change. Why are we now afraid to change? —Eleanor Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: change America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Qabalists believed that the universe was created from sound. Thus by reciting sacred sounds, changes or transformations of matter could take place. Healing could simply consist of reinvoking those sacred sounds in the body. . . . Perhaps this is what the shamans do when they chant. —Fred Alan Wolf More about this quote Tags: change universe transformation sound healing chanting shamanism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something, we'd all love one another. —Frank Zappa More about this quote Tags: love power change songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Healing is what happens, not what we do. —Dora Kunz More about this quote Tags: action change work healing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. —Émile de Girardin More about this quote Tags: power words change defeat victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at? —Lord Byron More about this quote Tags: truth change opinions Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —Suzanne Necker More about this quote Tags: reality clear-seeing change luck Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I know I've changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in the past. Back then I was all innocent and trusting and didn't know anything. —Laura Wiess in Leftovers More about this quote Tags: innocence memory past change trust numbness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had. Finally it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes a reality. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: strength hearts change conscience respect nonviolence courage oppression self-respect Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I put a dollar in a change machine. Nothing happened. —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: change money irony Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email