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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place. Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change. Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through. I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives. Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something. 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. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them. Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes. Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays. Everything changes, nothing remains without change. Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Times change, and we change with them. Change your thoughts and you change your world. Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change. To change and change for the better are two different things. Change yourself, change your fortunes. People do no change with the times, they change the times. Never change a winning game; always change a losing one. Everything changes but change. Technology does not drive change -- it enables change. Anything that changes your values changes your behavior. We can only change the world by changing men. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites canchange, then there is hope for America. God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things which must be changed;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name. Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves. When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change. Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are. Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often. They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world. We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature. The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.- Braude Jacob M. There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant. Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint. No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. The self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior. Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never sawbefore. It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning. Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing. Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives. The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking. People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value. No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal. All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
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