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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
– Tom Peters
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Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
– William Petty
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
– Phaedrus
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I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
– River Phoenix
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When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
– River Phoenix
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I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
– Pink
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I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
– Plutarch
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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
– Alexander Pope
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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
– Alexander Pope
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Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
– J. B. Priestley
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Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.
– Prince
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Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
– Sara Paddison
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The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
– Daniel D. Palmer
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The hotel was a forcing house for situations every shade of behavior in public had significance, so that the choice of a seat could constitute a victory or a reverse, and a few words aside change the complexion of half the day.
– Gladys Parrish
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It was a cross between a screwball and a change-up. It was a screw-up.
– Bob Patterson
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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
– Alexander Payne
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Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
– Gaylord Perry
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Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
– Marge Piercy
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Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
– William Pollard
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I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
– Carly Pope
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People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
– John Porter
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Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.
– Vince Poscente
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I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
– J. F. Powers
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The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
– Max de Pree
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
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The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own.
– Lee R. Raymond
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One thing that Buddhism teaches you is that every moment is an opportunity to change.
– Ron Reagan
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So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
– Harry Reid
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Words are the small change of thought.
– Jules Renard
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The moment of change is the only poem.
– Adrienne Rich
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
– Jean Paul Richter
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Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
– Branch Rickey
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Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.
– Bob Riley
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I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.
– Bob Riley
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We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.
– Bob Riley
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The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
– Anthony Robbins
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Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
– Anthony Robbins
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
– Anthony Robbins
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A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.
– George Lincoln Rockwell
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A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.
– Bill Rodgers
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
– Carl R. Rogers
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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
– Al Rogers
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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
– Jim Rohn
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We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
– Andy Rooney
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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
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A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.
– Tim Roth
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I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
– Wilma Rudolph
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Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
– Bertrand Russell
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Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
– Gilda Radner
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Change is not a process for the impatient.
– Barbara Reinhold
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If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
– Charles Revson
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Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
– David Riesman
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I have fun doing the shows. People see you in a different style and that's the best way to show people how you can change.
– Ines Rivero
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I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
– Arthur Rubinstein
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I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.
– Jalal Talabani
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To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.
– Jalal Talabani
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We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.
– Jalal Talabani
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We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.
– Jalal Talabani
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The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
– Valentina Tereshkova
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I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
– Margaret Thatcher
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Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
– Margaret Thatcher
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The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.
– Craig Thomas
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In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
– Cal Thomas
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Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
– Alvin Toffler
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
– Alvin Toffler
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What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
– Simon Travaglia
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Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
– Harry S. Truman
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We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
– Serj Tankian
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We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon - to anticipate it and plan for it.
– Lisa Taylor
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All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
– Morihei Ueshiba
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It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.
– Stanislaw Ulam
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Love is something eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.
– Vincent van Gogh
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I'm thinking of remaking Psycho again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a Punk rocker setting.
– Gus Van Sant
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No one has the right to change Paris, the protesters say, and argue that the city is the patrimony of all mankind.
– John Vinocur
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Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.
– Frederick M. Vinson
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We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'
– George Voinovich
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Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
– Denis Waitley
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And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.
– Murray Walker
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
– Zack Wamp
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Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.
– An Wang
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This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
– Maxine Waters
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Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
– Jack Welch
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We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
– Jessamyn West
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
– Edward Weston
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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
– Edith Wharton
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Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything right the first time, and since I don't write with a hammer and chisel, it's relatively easy for me to change. It's just words on paper. Words are free. You don't go to the store and order a pound of words, or five hundred words, and pay your three dollars. They're free.
– August Wilson
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The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
– Thomas Wolfe
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Ten years ago, Peter Senge introduced the idea of the 'learning organization' Now he says that for big companies to change, we need to stop thinking like mechanics and to start acting like gardeners.
– Alan M. Webber
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Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.
– Carol Welch
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We can only change the world by changing men.
– Charles Wells
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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
– Paul Wellstone
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If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.
– Stuart Wilde
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Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.
– Carey Williams
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Marygreen did not change in sixteen years. It had changed little enough in the past two years.
– Kathleen Winsor
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The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
– Lois Wyse
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What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.
– Owen D. Young
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You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment.
– Jong-Yong Yun
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Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
– Viktor Yushchenko
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
– Mao Zedong
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