And it is change that always provides the opportunity for the new and different. Systematic innovation therefore consists in the purposeful and organized search for changes, and in the systematic analysis of the opportunities such...

When we pray we admit defeat.

I would miss Colby, but it wasn’t going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

Have and show motivation to do and learn. That’s the key for a good career. Everything else is an extrapolation of that.

We are all glorified motion sensors.Some things only become visible to us when they undergo change.We take for granted all the constant, fixed things, and eventually stop paying any attention to them. At the same...

You have to design your own price tag for the world.

This is an emotional request to the for-profit startups I help to build, strategize, and monetize. I do it for free because I care for you and your vision. I don’t take an equity or...

It’s useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same.

Man will never reach the higher wisdom,If he can’t yet accept the pain of change.

…move from emphasis on personal lifestyle issues toward creating political paradigms and radical models of social change that emphasize collective as well as individual change.

Changing your mind can move you into another dimension. Passages materialize exposing a hidden world that was there all along.

I love that there’s no cutoff where we get labeled and sent off to a home for hopeless, cranky, depressives. Every day is a new chance to listen longer and be braver and love more....

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.

I do know the sorrow of being ordinary, and that much of our life is spent doing the crazy mental arithmetic of how, at any given moment, we might improve, or at least disguise or...

For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you’ve got to let go of...

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Love all of you; who you were and the person you are becoming. You are the total package!

Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible and minute ways, accumulating so subtly that they seem not to exist. Yet...

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has...

Death for [the Buddhist] is the shadow on the face of life, for the opposite of death is birth, not life; that which is born must die. Life has no opposite, for life goes on;...

It’s like the seasons. When they start, you’re one kind of person, and then when they end, you’re somebody different.

The clocks understood, they kept moving, motion, following the truth that change is the nature of God’s mind, and resistance to it is the source of great pain.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Real change will come when you focus on yourself – not on changing him, Real change comes when you are willing and able to state your claim on what you are and are not willing...

I can’t change you and you can’t change me, but together we can work to change the world.

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme,...

I’m seventeen today and dressed for a party. But I can’t move. I can’t think, much less move. I can’t breathe, much less think. This is the moment when my life will change forever.

When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense.

Embraced in Isaac’s wings, I decided that change wasn’t such a bad thing. It actually gave flight to a whole new world I couldn’t wait to explore.

Redesign your image, make it brighter! You can’t wait for any other time, any other person or any other skill. Once you are convinced about your personal power, you can enter the race and change...

It is said that if you want to change the world, take pen and write. I want to add that if you want to maintain that change, then be the ruler to rule the pen’s...

Fear is the killer of fascinating change.

I got an abortion and learned how to make dehydrated tuna flakes and turkey jerky and took a refresher course on basic first aid and practiced using my water purifier in my kitchen sink. I...

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

status quo” on the other, they are often in balance. Change is hard. We tend to accept our condition and no matter how painful, we will not change until the balancing scale is tipped –...

When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace...

A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!

Because everyone has a natural yearning for completion, we are able to change and recreate ourselves endlessly.

If you can imagine a solution, you can make it happen.

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

Right ain’t changed in all these years. From my maternal grandmother, Pearl C. Parker

With the woman I loved, I wouldn’t change one second with her. No, I’d change all the seconds, and the thing I’d change is her.

Emotions are like muscles. Most of them go highly unattended, it’s usually the weaker, undefined ones that cause injury to the rest, and there is most certainly memory response in play.

We all share three things in common: We are breathing, we have a heart, and most importantly we have twenty four hours to live. With those things, we should not have an excuse as to...

The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. .. Even...

The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil – they’re all fluid and in transition. They don’t stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx...

I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being...

Do not waste time trying to change the world – just look for something that you are useful.

My world was changing, and I was not ready for it.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.