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Change Quotes
"Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is really the beginning of Everything."
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"When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does."
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"While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should."
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"Just like changing personality, culture change is possible but difficult."
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"I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was."Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly."It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town."
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"A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud."
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"This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness."
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"Everything changes but change itself."
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"It's funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding the exact point when everything changed. That summer was mine."
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"What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change."
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"We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it."
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
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"It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change."
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"This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them."
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"Whenever you are in transition it is always important to choose the words that you use. You call it crises in your life and I call it transition."
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"Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them."
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"People submit tooeasily to change from others. And yet, for some reason, wheneverthey consider changing themselves, the focus is always on what theyare giving up, never what they are about to gain."
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"It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit."
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"If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want."
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"Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away."
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"But change must always be balanced with some degree of consistency."
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"You don't realize - the great thing about change is how quickly we get used to it. So I'm not complaining. the more things change,the more they don't stay the same. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. They might not change everywhere all at once - but there are moments when the impossible becomes the inevitable, and the rest is just a matter of time."
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"When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind."
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"We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas."
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"Change your state of being and your experience will follow."
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"You must embrace change before change erases you."
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"But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place."
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"A phase of my life was closing to-night, anew one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was beingaccomplished."
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"Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position."
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"What has been is no more. Change has come."
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"We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them."
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"The greatest mistake is to think that we ever know why we do things...I suppose the nearest we can ever come to it is by getting what old people call 'experience.' But by the time we've got that we're no longer the persons who did the things we no longer understand. The trouble is, I suppose, that we change every moment; and the things we did stay."
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