Adaptation quotes - page 25
Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.
Martin Heidegger
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
Jody Watley
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.
When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.
David Harvey
If you do not change, you can become extinct !
Spencer Johnson
The process of breathing is the most accurate metaphor we have for the way that we personally approach life, how we live our lives, and how we react to the inevitable changes that life brings us.
Donna Farhi
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
Joan Wallach Scott
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important
There is something about yourself that you don't know.
Jason Statham