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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Franz Grillparzer

Poet · Austrian · 1791 – 1872

You really can change the world if you care enough.

Marian Wright Edelman

Activist · American · b. 1939

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Artist · Italian · 1452 – 1519

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Author · American · 1933 – 2004

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

J. M. Coetzee

Author · South African · b. 1940

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

Stanislav Grof

Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Denis Waitley

Writer · American

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Victor Hugo

Author · French · 1802 – 1885

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Michael K. Powell

Politician · American · b. 1963

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

Esther Dyson

Scientist · American · b. 1951

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

Statesman · Filipino · b. 1947

But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

Edward Bond

Playwright · English · b. 1934

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rahm Emanuel

Politician · American · b. 1959

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.

Jessamyn West

Author · American · 1902 – 1984

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Octavio Paz

Poet · Mexican · 1914 – 1998

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Tony Scott

Director · British · b. 1944

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Jimmy Swaggart

Clergyman · American · b. 1935

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Thomas Fuller

Clergyman · English · 1608 – 1661

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Historian · Greek

Our language is the reflection of ourselves. A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

Cesar Chavez

Activist · American · 1927 – 1993

I don't fiddle or edit or change while I'm going through that first draft.

Nora Roberts

Author · American · b. 1950

The catalyst for much of this change is the growing support for republicanism.

Gerry Adams

Politician · Irish · b. 1948

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

Donella Meadows

Environmentalist · American · 1941 – 2001

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Activist · b. 1945

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

Doug Coupland

Author · Canadian · b. 1961

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

Ogden Nash

Poet · American · 1902 – 1971

If you change the belief first, changing the action is easier.

Peter McWilliams

Writer · American · 1949 – 2000

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Gijs de Vries

Politician · Dutch · b. 1956

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

Frank B. Kellogg

Politician · American · 1856 – 1937

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor E. Frankl

Psychologist · Austrian · 1905 – 1997

Well, changes have been made. The question is whether we've done enough by way of change.

Richard Ben Veniste

Lawyer · American · b. 1943

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.

Sidney Blumenthal

Journalist · American · b. 1948

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Jerry Brown

Politician · American · b. 1938

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Walter Gilbert

Scientist · American · b. 1932

The greatest enemy of progress is not stagnation, but false progress.

Sydney J. Harris

Journalist · American · 1917 – 1986

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

Robert McChesney

Critic · American

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.

Arthur Erickson

Architect · Canadian · b. 1924

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

Marc Jacobs

Designer · American · b. 1963

It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.

Alan Perlis

Scientist · American · 1922 – 1990

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

May Sarton

Poet · American · b. 1912

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.

Mary Austin

Writer · American · 1868 – 1934

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

William J. Clinton

President · American · b. 1946

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President · American · 1882 – 1945

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Robert Browning

Poet · English · 1812 – 1889

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Havelock Ellis

Psychologist · British · 1859 – 1939

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Alan Perlis

Scientist · American · 1922 – 1990

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

Vicente Fox

Statesman · Mexican · b. 1942

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