Top 1200 Accepting Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

The people who help us grow toward true self offer unconditional love, neither judging us to be deficient nor trying to force us to change but accepting us exactly as we are. And yet this unconditional love does not lead us to rest on our laurels. Instead, it surrounds us with a charged force field that makes us want to grow from the inside out - a force field that is safe enough to take the risks and endure the failures that growth requires.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

I agree with O'Toole that custom and comfort are impediments to change. However, it is important to recognize that resistance to change is logical as well. The new "change masters" literature seems to take change as the norm. It isn't. Humans naturally see change as risky because it is risky, just as mutations in genes are mostly destructive. You would not want to go to work were everything changed every week! The phone system, the office assignments, who reports to who, and the whole set of job expectations.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

His view of time, and of change, has become that of most elderly people: he hates change, since for him - for his body - any change is for the worse. And if there is to be change, then he wants it to happen quickly, so it does not use up too much of the time remaining to him.

Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

While accepting a film, my co-star is my last priority.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

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

... accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

Constantly adapting yourself to changing times is a very integral part of a successful person's personality because change is the only constant, and one should have the ability to change and adapt to change with time.

I think accepting an instruction is part of a player's responsibility.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.

By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

I think it's great to change - change country, change anything.

Few of us can actually change the world. We can only change ourselves. But if enough people took that to heart, the world would change.

Balance and control come from healthy anger. This is just as aggressive as the unhealthy kind. But it is based on a belief and hope for change in social roles and institutions. Healthy anger demands change and creates the confrontations needed for change to occur. It also gives the other an opportunity to help make that change. “Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

I'm very accepting of how people live their lives.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

but accepting help doesn?t have to mean giving up control.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

What Donald Trump is, is not movement of change, it's a reaction to global change, it's a total reaction to global change. It's transformational change in the world done by transportation, technology and all that. And people, most of Donald Trump's voters want to go back.

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

I do think Hillary Clinton should have pivoted and say, I am change, I am change, because people do want some change.

L.A. is the most accepting city I've ever been in.

Only by accepting our desires can we have an idea of who we are.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

Rivaldo was fundamental for me accepting the challenge in Bunyodkor.

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.

Opportunities change, strategies change, but people and psychology do not change. If trend-following systems don’t work well, something else will. There’s always money being lost, so someone out there has to win.

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.

We can only receive what our minds are capable of accepting.

I believe people, especially women, have become more accepting of who they are.

Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive. Life looks intelligently designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that there must be an intelligent designer--a God. Similarly, the economy looks designed, so our natural inclination is to infer that we need a designer--a government. In fact, emergence and complexity theory explains how the principles of self-organization and emergence cause complex systems to arise from simple systems without a top-down designer.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.