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.
The best way to change the system is to wait until it changes.
TV: The Colbert Réport: 25 Oct 2005
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Luck can only change with the perception of luck changing, because there is no luck, only evaluation of statistical probabilities.
“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.
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.
Video game: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
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.
Video game: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne
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.
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.
There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; indeed, that’s the only thing that ever has.
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in different ways; the point is to change it.
Anything truly revolutionary is created by a few who see what is true and are willing to live according to that truth; but to discover what is true demands freedom from tradition, which means freedom from all fears.
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it.
I have faith that if you show people reality, they’ll take their lives more seriously, and that will slowly change the world.
Our lives improve only when we take chances, and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.
I think that a deliberate effort to broaden my experiences has been the single most helpful effort. By exposing myself to a variety of different experiences, it causes me to look at things from different perspectives. Later, I can take current problems or issues and compare them to apparently unrelated situations and see new opportunities.
Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.
Book: “The Stand” by Stephen King
The secret of a happy life is to accept change gracefully.
Everything is connected. No one thing can change by itself.