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Quote #3036

Thu, 07 May 2009 04:05:03 -0700

How could I hope to change the world if I didn't start with myself? If I had to change at least one man, let it be me.
- The Captain
Video game: Cryostasis: The Sleep of Reason

Quote #2910

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:01:37 -0700

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson, philosopher

Quote #2845

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:13:14 -0700

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
- Buckminster Fuller

Quote #2697

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:32:40 -0700

Look, everybody else in America has already been to Prague, what's the big deal if you send one extra? I'm sorry, you see I've been needing to go there for a long time, now. I mean there's Czech and Slovakia, and the big Jewish cemetery, and the opera house... maybe that's Vienna where the opera house is, but that's nearby, and given the opportunity, I'd hit Vienna, too. Hell, I'd do all of Europe, given the chance. I can imagine Jane and some Praguean idiot dancing the night away... horrible image. And the coffee, see, all I know is American coffee, and the beer, and whatever is good over there. It's gotta all be better over there. Nothing I eat has any taste. It's been such a strange time. And what if I was there now, how would things be different? Isn't there a big bridge with statues on it? I seem to remember that from a history class. And Jane and some guy kissing on the bridge in public. No, it's Jane and some Czech writer. Image kills me... Just great. This is so frustrating. I'm terrible at conflict. I hate it. And if I'd imagined this problem while falling asleep one night I don't think I would have spoken up to you. Even in my fantasy life, I just would've accepted it. That's who I am. But today, I have to go. I have to. And when I tell people about this in the future, I know that, you know, it'll be the time that I went. And I know when I review this whole episode in my head I'm not gonna know what I did or why I did it. I think they've done something with the real Grover. But it'll make a good story of my young adult life. You know, the time I chose to go to Prague. I'll look back on it and I won't believe that I actually went, you know. I went away. So let me go. I have to, I need - just put me on the plane. Let me go.
- Grover Cary
Movie: Kicking and Screaming

Quote #2647

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:07:37 -0700

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
- Carl Rogers
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Quote #2561

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:11:20 -0800

As one goes through it, one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it...
- R.D. Laing

Quote #2499

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:22:37 -0800

I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be.
- Ainsley Carry

Quote #2480

Tue, 31 Oct 2006 17:50:40 -0800

What seems to us serious, significant, very important, will one day be forgotten or will seem unimportant. And it's curious that we can't possibly tell what exactly will be considered great and important, and what will seem petty and ridiculous.
- Anton Chekhov

Quote #2466

Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:44:13 -0700

I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
- Buffy
TV: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Quote #2425

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:36:59 -0700

[I]f you're sitting in my office for an interview, I am assuming you've got technical chops. We wouldn't have let you in the door unless we could figure out from looking at your resume that you had the technical skills to do the job. Doesn't matter if you're a college hire or Mr. Lord of the Database. I'm not vetting you for technical ability, I'm vetting you for the breadth of your vision, I measuring your ambition, and I'm looking for a sign that you believe you can change the world.
- Rands In Repose
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Quote #2356

Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:10:28 -0700

In describing today's accelerating changes, the media fires blips of unrelated information at us. Experts bury us under mountains of narrowly specialized monographs. Popular forecasters present lists of unrelated trends, without any model to show us their interconnections or the forces likely to reverse them. As a result, change itself comes to be seen as anarchic, even lunatic.
- Alvin Toffler

Quote #2339

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:27:19 -0700

Society moves by some degree of parricide, by which the children, on the whole, kill, if not their fathers, at least the beliefs of their fathers, and arrive at new beliefs. This is what progress is.
- Isaiah Berlin

Quote #2230

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:56:10 -0800

Society is made up of groups, and as long as the smaller groups do not have the same rights and the same protection as others - I don't care whether you call it capitalism or communism - it is not going to work. Somehow, the guys in power have to be reached by counterpower, or through a change in their hearts and minds, or change will not come.
- Cesar Chavez

Quote #2176

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:38:17 -0800

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Quote #2170

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:20:35 -0800

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quote #2155

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:16:03 -0800

Once upon a time...strong, independent women were called witches and were burned at the stake...Today they're called feminists...they publish web pages, get flamed in e-mail and are blamed for most of society's problems...It's not perfect...but it's a lot better than the stake.
- Unknown

Quote #2086

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:48:10 -0800

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
- Anatole France

Quote #2068

Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:40:19 -0800

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Quote #2042

Sun, 05 Feb 2006 05:56:09 -0800

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
- Frank Gelett Burgess
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Quote #1976

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 15:14:40 -0800

Successful organizations acquire a commitment to the status quo and a resistance to ideas that might change it.
- Nathan Rosenberg - American economist

Quote #1836

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:00:23 -0700

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear... It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
- Marilyn Ferguson

Quote #1835

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:05:08 -0700

The best way to change the system is to wait until it changes.
- Stephen Colbert
TV: The Colbert Réport: 25 Oct 2005

Quote #1739

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 14:21:24 -0700

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
- Alan Cohen

Quote #1662

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 21:57:30 -0700

One never knows what will happen if things are suddenly changed. But do we know what will happen if they are not changed?
- Elias Canetti - British (Bulgarian-born) writer (1905-1994)

Quote #1600

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 18:34:42 -0700

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- R. D. Laing - British (Scottish-born) psychiatrist (1927-1989)

Quote #1513

Wed, 18 May 2005 05:34:20 -0700

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
- Richard Feynman

Quote #1498

Sun, 08 May 2005 00:18:54 -0700

When one dreams alone, it is only a dream. When many dream together, it is the beginning of a new reality.
- Hunderwasser

Quote #1466

Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:23:12 -0700

Luck can only change with the perception of luck changing, because there is no luck, only evaluation of statistical probabilities.
- Todd Hoyer
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Quote #1419

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:10:59 -0800

"The Things That I Want" by Max Payne.

A smoke.
A whiskey.
For the sun to shine.
I want to sleep, to forget.
To change the past.
My wife and baby girl back.
Unlimited ammo and a license to kill.
Right then, more than anything, I wanted her.
- Max Payne
Video game: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Quote #1417

Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:08:42 -0800

This is what I see when I look back. These moments, blinding as snow, they kill you, change you, you die and live again. Remade.
- Max Payne
Video game: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne

Quote #1298

Sat, 05 Mar 2005 22:30:29 -0800

People are always telling you change is a good thing, but what they're really saying is that something that you didn't want to happen just happened.
Movie: You’ve Got Mail

Quote #1115

Sat, 26 Feb 2005 19:39:44 -0800

Nature soon takes over if the gardener is absent.
- Penelope Hobhouse - British (Irish-born) writer & garden designer (b. 1929)

Quote #1059

Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:35:49 -0800

One doesn't change. As x changes, it stays the same. It says, "I don't care what x does! It can run around me in circles! I'm one!"
- Mr. Durant - High School Calculus Teacher

Quote #988

Fri, 18 Feb 2005 13:32:38 -0800

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we do not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

Quote #898

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:30:46 -0800

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

Quote #886

Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:06:14 -0800

Our starting point is to put aside our apathy, complacency and cynicism and to choose hope, hope that leads to engagement. It is only in our hope and by our actions that the world will change
- Albert Camus

Quote #870

Wed, 09 Feb 2005 06:00:47 -0800

The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it--once you can honestly say "I don't know"--then it becomes possible to get at the truth.
- Robert A. Heinlein

Quote #790

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:34:32 -0800

Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Quote #710

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:58:55 -0800

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.
- Jim Rohn

Quote #706

Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:21:56 -0800

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
- Carol Burnett

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