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change organization people
Alan Bennett We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
change real listening
Alan Alda Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
change trying aircraft-carriers
Al Ries Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
change horse men
Aiden Wilson Tozer Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.
change names fixed
Aiden Wilson Tozer When God would make His name known to mankind, He could find no better word than "I AM." "I am that I am," says God, "I change not." Everyone and everything else measures from that fixed point.
change families family handle patients problem testing
Robert Bennett We want them to completely change the way they handle organs. We want stricter testing and we want families and patients to be notified if there is a problem with a donor, so that the family could make the decision, not the doctor.
change front fully improved nice totally
Tom Harp We want to totally change the look from a 50-year-old neighborhood to a neighborhood that is state-of-the-art and fully improved with nice front lawns.
change sweat ideas
Chogyam Trungpa In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the smell of our own sweat. When we examine that comfortable darkness - look at it, smell it, feel it - we find it is claustrophobic.
book reading writing
Charles Dickens There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
Charles Caleb Colton He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book easy easy-to-get
Charles Caleb Colton It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
Charles Caleb Colton If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
Charles Caleb Colton That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healthy may
Charles Caleb Colton Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
views extending fearlessness
Chogyam Trungpa Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
views hands years
Edward Gibbon The comparative view of the powers of the magistrates, in two remarkable instances, is alone sufficient to represent the whole system of German manners. The disposal of the landed property within their district was absolutely vested in their hands, and they distributed it every year according to a new division. At the same time, they were not authorised to punish with death, to imprison, or even to strike, a private citizen.
views political literature
Edith Wharton I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
views rights political
David Horowitz I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.
views individuality world
David Hockney I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.
views mind world
David Hockney It's all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops—for a split second.
views dating people
David Brooks I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.
views conservative
Denis Leary I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.
views female point-of-view
Denis Leary I wanted a more female point of view.