Adaptation quotes - page 41

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
 Elspeth Huxley
Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.
 Ray Noorda
Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.
 Marshall Ganz
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development.
What is the environmental policy of the Republican Party? When I ask that question, I get a blank stare, if I'm president of the United States, we're going to address climate change and CO2 emissions in a business-friendly way.
 Lindsey Graham
The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.
 Rosabeth Moss Kanter
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
 C. L. R. James
Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.
 Anita Roddick
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
 Marian Wright Edelman
This heinous crime should be of particular concern to all of us. . . . I know my colleagues will agree that the murder of Americans overseas cannot go unpunished. I will continue to closely follow developments in this case[.]
 Mitch McConnell
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
 Anwar Sadat
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
 Lee Krasner
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
 Tina Turner
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you\'ll discover will be wonderful. What you\'ll discover is yourself.
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
 Alan Alda
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
 Katherine Mansfield