Quotes Primer Prompts TOC

Change

Alteration, modification, mutation, shift

QUOTES

Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor.
 Robert Frost
 Black Cottage, 1914

The more things change, the more they are the same.
 Alphonse Karr
 Les Guepes, 1849

And now for something completely different.
 John Cleese
 Monty Python, 1970

Change is constant.
 Benjamin Disraeli
 1867

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
 Confucius
 

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
 FrancisBacon
 Essays, 1625

Everything flows and nothing stays... you can't step twice into the same river.
 Heraclitus
 -510

Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
 Reinhold Niebuhr
 

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
 Maya Angelou
 

Be not afraid of growing slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.
 anonymous
 Chinese proverb,

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
 W Edwards Deming
 

See Also Consistency Innovation

References

History
  • Changes in military stategy: Hittite cavalry, Roman phalanx, longbows at Agincourt, machine guns 1856, tanks 1914, aerial bombing 1925, missiles 1940, atomic bomb 1945, jets 1947

    Arts & Science

  • Movies: Tootsie, My Fair Lady, Birth of a Nation

    Literature




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