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"In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'."
"We continuously make promises and create agreements with ourselves and others. Some of these agreements are mutually beneficial. However, when you realize that things you agreed to in the past are no longer helpful, possible, or relevant, renegotiate. Be invested enough in your situations or relationships for renegotiation to take place."
"Changes should not scare us because it is a natural process."
"For life to go your way, you must equip yourself with the power of change."
"We change when circumstances necessitate it, we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don't demand it at all."
"In our dynamic age, the speed of motion is increasing."
"As a professional speaker, I speak rather quickly with enthusiastic energy and emotion. This doesn't always sit well with people who like to speak at a slower pace and need more time to process. What I have learned through years in this profession is that to be more effective I must adapt my pace to the comfort level of my audience. When I am speaking to academics, engineers, and doctors, I speak with a slower pace than the one which I use with sales people, customer services teams, or teenagers."
"There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation."
"In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him."
Explore more quotes by Carolyn Heilbrun
"Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed."
"The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible."
"Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it."
"To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice."
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