Inspiring Change Quotes to Help You Embrace Life's Transformations - page 43
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
Grace Hopper
The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.
Piero Scaruffi
The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.
Gloria Feldt
In order to recognize small changes in effort, the effort itself must first be reduced. More delicate and improved control of movement is possible only through the increase of sensitivity, through a greater ability to sense differences.
Moshe Feldenkrais
Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
Georg Buchner
No society will long survive without mothers who care for their young and provide that nurturing care so essential for their normal development.
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
Katherine Mansfield
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
Gustavo Gutiérrez
It is a curious fact that with every great revolutionary movement the question of 'free love' comes into the foreground.
Friedrich Engels
Psychic development is not a fanatical, freaky study, predicting the future, talking to UFOs, and being able to find out curious facts that are basically irrelevant to one's time in life.
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual edifice might collapse.
Arthur Koestler
The early development of speed reading can be traced to the beginning of the (20th) century, when the publication explosion swamped readers with more than they could possibly handle at normal reading rates.
Tony Buzan
Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.
Samuel P. Huntington
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
