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The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
I’m always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn’t change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I’m all for it.
People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.
If you don’t change direction, you end up where you are headed.
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
Build what you want to see in the world.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
An individual’s state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.
Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves… he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Baseball has always been slow to accept change. Only through dire pressure can any radical change be accomplished. The move of the Giants and Dodgers from New York to California brought that pressure in abundance.
Conservatives are inclined to use the powers of government to prevent change or to limit its rate to whatever appeals to the more timid mind. In looking forward, they lack the faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment which makes the liberal accept changes without apprehension, even though he does not know how the necessary adaptations will be brought about.
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create positive changes on our own initiative. While conservatism and self-protection might be likened to winter, night, and death, the spirit of pioneering and attempting to realize ideals evokes images of spring, morning, and birth.
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
Invention and entrepreneurship isn’t about pure technology. Most people take whatever they see in front of them and relate it to something they understand. For at least ten years after Ford started building cars, people called them horseless carriages. It wasn’t obvious to call it a car. They used to call the radio ‘the wireless.’ Innovation is much more about changing people and their perceptions and their attitudes and their willingness to accept change than it is about physics and engineering.
I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Knowledge empowers people. If people know the rules, and are sensitized by art, humor, and creativity, they are much more likely to accept change.
We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.
One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.