Quotes of: Life-changes Keyword

I know you better then anyone. You’re practically my son, and I think that it’s the fact that you don’t want to see her leave. You are afraid of change.” He paused; he was right. “You are afraid that she will change.

November Snow

What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you.

One Day

...isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all the advertising men who create it?

The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character

if people do not have responsibility, do not expect them to behave responsibly.

The Leaderless Revolution: How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

Lost Lake

We are all flawed, my dear. Every one of us. And believe me, we've all made mistakes. You've just got to take a good hard look at yourself, change what needs to be changed, and move one, pet.

Let It Snow

It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.

The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music

I have learnt that nothing stays the same. Today might seem the same as yesterday but no day ever is; we may want no changes to ever come, but changes do, in time. They cannot be helped; it is how the world turns.

The Silver Dark Sea

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, they appear so obvious.

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe

Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black

I need a friend and you seemed nicest. I think you and I can have more fun than those fake people on the other side.

Tangi's Teardrops: A Single Tear Will Change Everything...

Other nations merely change governments as a lady changes dancing partners: Canada contrives to fall in a dead faint every time the music stops.

The Prime Ministers of Canada

I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change

He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

The Peach Keeper

Knowing how the environment is pulling your strings and playing you is critical to making responsive rather than reactive moves.

The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World

You can't change who you are, can you? That would require changing the people who made you along the way. That would mean discrediting everything they ever gave you.

Unborn: Three Short Stories

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful.

What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present

Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.

You Can Change: God's Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behavior and Negative Emotions

Your next action could change the world, so make it a good one.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible