Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vernor Vinge

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

Vernon Howard

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

Vernon Howard

To change what you get you must change who you are.

Stephen Covey

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Stephen Covey

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Stephen Covey

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Stephen Covey

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Viktor E. Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Vanilla Ice

You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

Vachel Lindsay

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Sutton Foster

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

Sophie Kinsella

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

Sophocles

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

Stephen King

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Stanley Tucci

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

Sophie Swetchine

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Soren Kierkegaard

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Tanith Lee

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

Takafumi Horie

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

Takafumi Horie

The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.

Tacitus

Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]

Sylvia Plath

I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

Roy Lichtenstein

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

Rosanne Cash

It was never too late to undo who you had become.

Rollo May

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change.

Samantha Morton

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

Rumi

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Tom Peters

Accept change as a friend. And don't take yourself too seriously.

Tom Peters

The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.