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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Charles Kettering

Inventor · American · 1876 – 1958

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.

Herbert Simon

Scientist · American · 1916 – 2001

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu

Philosopher

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

Mac Thornberry

Politician · American · b. 1958

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Alan Dundes

Educator · American · 1935 – 2005

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Paul Getty

Businessman · American · 1932 – 2003

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Doug Larson

Cartoonist · American

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

Max Lerner

Journalist · American · b. 1902

I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.

Margaret Spellings

Public Servant · American · b. 1957

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Michael Porter

Educator · American

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America.

William L. Jenkins

Politician · American · b. 1936

Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Norman Mailer

Novelist · American · 1923 – 2007

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

George Washington

President · American · 1732 – 1799

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Frank Howard Clark

Writer · American

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Inventor · American · 1847 – 1931

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

Anna Lindh

Politician · Swedish · 1957 – 2003

Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.

Hillary Clinton

Politician · American · b. 1947

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

Bob Ehrlich

Politician · American · b. 1957

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Lao Tzu

Philosopher

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Benjamin Franklin

Politician · American · 1706 – 1790

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

Stephen Harper

Politician · Canadian · b. 1959

There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

David Korten

Activist · American

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Writer · American

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world.

Dennis Hastert

Politician · American · b. 1942

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Herbert Spencer

Philosopher · English · 1820 – 1903

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

Susan George

Activist · American · b. 1950

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Poet · English · 1809 – 1892

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

William Ames

Philosopher · English · d. 1633

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time.

David O. Selznick

Producer · American · 1902 – 1965

Moreover, statistics can be deceiving: the growth of jobs in the US in the 90s was due to many part-time jobs, with no benefits and generally low pay.

David Korten

Activist · American

Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.

Bryant H. McGill

Poet · American · b. 1969

The impact of climate change is a tremendous risk to the security and well-being of our countries.

Nancy Pelosi

Politician · American · b. 1940

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

Angela Merkel

Statesman · German · b. 1954

Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

Herbert Read

Poet · English

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematician · English · 1861 – 1947

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

John Prescott

Politician · British · b. 1938

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

Kenneth L. Pike

Sociologist · American · 1912 – 2000

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Diane Arbus

Photographer · American · 1923 – 1971

There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.

Harri Holkeri

Politician · Finnish · b. 1937

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer · English · 1874 – 1936

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Writer · French · 1613 – 1680

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

Andy Warhol

Artist · American · 1927 – 1987

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

William James

Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

Poet · American · b. 1928

I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.

Harold Bloom

Critic · American · b. 1930

We will see the increasingly rapid rate of growth we've already been seeing in Colorado continue.

John Hickenlooper

Politician · American · b. 1952

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