Quotes about Change
She lost her illusions in the collapse of her sympathies.
— DH Lawrence
There's a bad time coming, boys, there's a bad time coming! If things go on as they are, there's nothing lies in the future but death and destruction, for these industrial masses.
— DH Lawrence
Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--
— DH Lawrence
He also wearied his mother very often. She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.
— DH Lawrence
Paul felt life changing around him. The conditions of youth were gone.
— DH Lawrence
One may go against convention, but one must keep up tradition.
— DH Lawrence
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
— Dale Carnegie
Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that everything changes except the law of change. He said: You cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?
— Dale Carnegie
B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behaviour. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.
— Dale Carnegie
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
— Dale Carnegie
If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?
— Dale Carnegie
To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.
— Dale Carnegie