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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

Saul Bellow

Novelist · American · 1914 – 2005

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

Doug Coupland

Author · Canadian · b. 1961

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Gerhard Schroder

Statesman · German · b. 1944

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

John Barton

Poet · Canadian

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.

Calvin Klein

Designer · American · b. 1942

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

E. B. White

Writer · American · 1899 – 1985

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

William Cowper

Poet · English · 1731 – 1800

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Nicolas de Chamfort

Writer · French

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

Charles de Lint

Writer · Canadian · b. 1951

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Poet · Italian · 1265 – 1321

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

Khalil Gibran

Poet · 1883 – 1931

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Thomas Hardy

Novelist · English · 1840 – 1928

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Franz Kafka

Novelist · Austrian · 1883 – 1924

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Soldier · 1820 – 1891

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

Artist · American · 1927 – 1987

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Author · Swiss · 1921 – 1990

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

Rutherford B. Hayes

President · American · 1822 – 1893

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone de Beauvoir

Writer · French · 1908 – 1986

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Tom Stoppard

Dramatist · English · b. 1937

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

Robert Anton Wilson

Writer · American · b. 1932

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Jack Welch

Businessman · American · b. 1935

Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things.

Origen

Theologian

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

Patricia Ireland

Activist · American · b. 1945

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Roger Ebert

Critic · American · b. 1942

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Wayne Dyer

Psychologist · American · b. 1940

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

Nigella Lawson

Journalist · British · b. 1960

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Emma Goldman

Activist · Lithuanian · 1869 – 1940

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Writer · Italian · 1469 – 1527

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.

Chuck Palahniuk

Novelist · American · b. 1961

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Bill Watterson

Cartoonist · American · b. 1958

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

Kevin Kelly

Editor · American

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Marian Wright Edelman

Activist · American · b. 1939

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Physicist · 1742 – 1799

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

James Hillman

Psychologist · American

There was the scientific and technical progress which couldn't be predicted by the state.

Anatoly Chubais

Politician · Russian · b. 1955

There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

Keith Miller

Author · American · b. 1927

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.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

Emanuel Celler

Politician · American · 1888 – 1981

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

Marcel Proust

Author · French · 1871 – 1922

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