Adaptation quotes - page 8
Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
Satish Kumar
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.
Sue Townsend
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
We are in an extremely precarious and urgent situation that compels immediate action
David Karoly
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
Branch Rickey
To me that's always a little satisfying - to find an underdeveloped topic and start developing it.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
Marc Benioff
A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.
Pico Iyer
She was developing what Mom called a bit of a sarcastic streak.
Jeannette Walls
However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.
When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
Jennifer Hudson
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
Bill Dixon
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
