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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.
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.
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
Vicente Fox
Statesman · Mexican · b. 1942