Inspiring Change Quotes to Help You Embrace Life's Transformations - page 18
Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
Mao Zedong
The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.
Peter Singer
An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.
Cyril Connolly
Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick Henry
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.
Brandon Sanderson
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to the field whose paradigm they change.
Thomas Kuhn
People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.
Suzanne La Follette
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Americans have always excelled through hard work, innovation, and an ability to find solutions that makes us unique among nations.
Dan Quayle
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.
You have to move forward. It's constantly changing. Everything changes and everything falls apart. You have to be nimble and on your toes and accessible to it all. Not everyone is on board with this.
Pierce Brosnan
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
Damian Thompson