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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Constance Baker Motley

Activist · American · 1921 – 2005

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

President · American · 1732 – 1799

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Albert Ellis

Psychologist · American · 1913 – 2007

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Writer · American · 1906 – 2001

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

Langston Hughes

Poet · American · 1902 – 1967

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

Kin Hubbard

Journalist · American · 1868 – 1930

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician · English · 1861 – 1947

In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Economist · American · 1908 – 2006

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.

John Naisbitt

Businessman · American · b. 1929

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

James Russell Lowell

Poet · American · 1819 – 1891

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Author · Swiss · 1921 – 1990

What is most important for Europe is economic growth and jobs, security at home and safety in the world.

Peter Mandelson

Politician · British · b. 1953

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius

Soldier · Roman · 121 – 180

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Frank Luntz

Politician · American

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes

Philosopher · English · 1817 – 1878

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

Annie Leibovitz

Photographer · American · b. 1949

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Douglas Horton

Clergyman · American · 1891 – 1968

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Jean Paul

Author · German · 1763 – 1825

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

John Ashcroft

Public Servant · American · b. 1942

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

Poet · American · b. 1928

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

Statesman · English · 1874 – 1965

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.

Leon Kass

Educator · American · b. 1939

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

Harri Holkeri

Politician · Finnish · b. 1937

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

Herbert Hoover

President · American · 1874 – 1964

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Ronald Reagan

President · American · 1911 – 2004

For the progress of scientific knowledge will lead to a constant increase of expenditure.

Richard Cobden

Businessman · British · 1804 – 1865

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Tom Peters

Businessman · American · b. 1942

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

John Burns

Activist · English · 1858 – 1943

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.

Andrew Vachss

Author · American · b. 1942

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Susan George

Activist · American · b. 1950

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

Novelist · Russian · 1828 – 1910

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Anne Sullivan Macy

Eductor · American · 1866 – 1936

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

Author · American · b. 1928

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

William Arthur Ward

Writer · American

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

Scientist · French · 1859 – 1941

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

President · American · 1732 – 1799

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.

John Keegan

Historian · English · b. 1934

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Lin Yutang

Author · Chinese · 1895 – 1976

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

Angela Merkel

Statesman · German · b. 1954

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Henry B. Adams

Historian · 1838 – 1918

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Statesman · Spanish · b. 1960

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

Leon Kass

Educator · American · b. 1939

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Albert Ellis

Psychologist · American · 1913 – 2007

If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.

Jennifer Granholm

Politician · American · b. 1959

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

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