Top 1200 Gradual Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

Our lives change. Our feelings for each other change. Our bearings change. The song changes. The air changes. The temperature of the shower changes. Accept this. We must accept this.

Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?

When I don't want anyone to change me, I also don't go out there and keep telling people, 'Change yourself into this' or 'Don't do this, do this.'

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights and to substitute for it the principle of the government’s unlimited, arbitrary power, thus delivering oneself into gradual enslavement. As an example of this process, observe the present domestic policy of the United States.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you.

Some women lose their husbands, and their worlds change because their financial circumstances change. All I have in common with them is a grief.

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

Nothing may change in days or in years or all can change in hours and in seconds! Knowing this means that you already know many things!

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

I'm not about change for the sake of change, but we should always be evaluating any initiative we're working on to see if we can do it better.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don't change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true change.

The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.

High School made me realize that the people who say they will never change, are always the ones who change the most.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

All true opinions are living, and show their life by being capable of nourishment; therefore of change. But their change is that of a tree not of a cloud.

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Our message and methodology have changed, do change, and must change if we are faithful to the ongoing and unchanging mission of Jesus Christ.

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.