Quotes about Change

We'll have all the same players... We'll be missing one, actually.

In your life, where are you not making mistakes? Sometimes if there's no mess, there's no change happening.

Thinking I'd be in politics just wasn't something I'd thought of as a younger woman. There just weren't a lot of role models there.

Computers double their performance every month.

I've worked in the business world and, as a futurist, the whole 20 years that I've led at Mosaic.

Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.

None of us ever gets to be in relationship with a finished person. God's redemptive work of change is ongoing in all our lives.

The Christian life is a state of thankful discontent or joyful dissatisfaction. That is, I live every day thankful for the grace that has changed my life, but I am not satisfied. Why not? Because, when I look at myself honestly, I have to admit that I am not all I can be in Christ. I am thankful for the many things in my life that would not be there without his grace, but I will not settle for a partial inheritance!

And each of us has tried to be the Holy Spirit in another person's life, trying to work spiritual changes that only God can accomplish.

How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.

I was so sure it would happen. That the past was an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.

Don't let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.