Quotes about Change

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.

I change so many houses and places where I live; I change them like I change socks. I don't have this absolute, kind of, how you say, attachment. My brother, if he just has to go to holiday to sleep in different bed, for him it is a disaster. I can sleep under this table or in a five-star hotel; I don't care.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Neighbors broke the news that my parents had been taken away by immigration officers, and just like that, my stable family life was over.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not have one, instead of talking about getting rid of Social Security and Medicare that was robbed $700 billion dollars to pay for Obamacare.

I'd like to be taller. I'd like my baby fat to leave.

It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.

I have wondered why it is that our greatest triumphs spring from our greatest extremity and adversity. Perhaps it is because we are so resistant to change, we only move when our seat becomes too hot to occupy.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Sometimes, to move forward, we must be willing to look back.