Change Quotes

“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction with others. That would explain why it is so hard to talk about whatever it is that might lie beyond or behind the description of the world: our language evolved to represent the description, and not the world itself.”
― Larry Gottlieb, Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions

“I speak a bit about physics in this book. I do so in order to see if I can convince you, as I have been convinced, that what we call common sense, our shared “knowledge” of the world we live in, is not a good indication of how the world actually works, let alone what it actually is.”
― Larry Gottlieb, Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions

“I have suggested that we can choose to regard the world as an interpretation of information provided by our senses, as opposed to a durable, external entity that will outlast us. If you’re focusing upon a description of the world, and you know it’s only a description, you can experiment with changing that description. This new view offers us a powerful choice of how to look at our lives.”
― Larry Gottlieb, Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions

“I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle.”
― Isabel Allende, The Soul of a Woman

“Change isn’t without cost, and maturity is deepened by hardships.”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“The barrier between ourselves and a greater range of possibilities of experience is a contradictory belief, a filter that removes those possibilities.”
― Larry Gottlieb, Hoodwinked: Uncovering Our Fundamental Superstitions

“If worldly things “be but as a dream, the thought is not far off that there may be an awakening to what is real. When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change, did he perhaps think of the change in a corn of wheat, which is not quickened except it die? Nature’s marvellous power of recreating out of Corruption is surely not confined to bodily things.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Sometimes an old photograph, an old friend, an old letter will remind you that you are not who you once were, for the person who dwelt among them, valued this, chose that, wrote thus, no longer exists. Without noticing it you have traversed a great distance; the strange has become familiar and the familiar if not strange at least awkward or uncomfortable, an outgrown garment. And some people travel far more than others ... Some people inherit values and practices as a house they inhabit; some of us have to burn down that house, find our own ground, build from scratch, even as a psychological metamorphosis.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“No one could discuss racial justice with President Eisenhower without coming away with mixed emotions. His personal sincerity on the issue was pronounced, and he had a magnificent capacity to communicate it to individuals. However, he had no ability to translate it to the public, or to define the problem as a supreme domestic issue. I have always felt that he failed because he knew that his colleagues and advisers did not share his views, and he had no disposition to fight even for cherished beliefs. Moreover, President Eisenhower could not be committed to anything which involved a structural change in the architecture of American society. His conservatism was fixed and rigid, and any evil defacing the nation had to be extracted bit by bit with a tweezer because the surgeon's knife was an instrument too radical to touch this best of all possible societies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Filth floats and pearls sink. To fetch the pearls, you will have to dive deep into the sea. Sitting comfortably on the shore, you can only grab filth.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“If the earth is a hotel, our life is just about the time we spend in a hotel between check-in and check-out.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Recently, Roy Wilkins and I appeared on the television program "Meet the Press." There were the usual questions about how much more the Negro wants, but there seemed to be a new undercurrent of implications related to the sturdy new strength of our movement. Without the courtly complexities, we were, in effect, being asked if we could be trusted to hold back the surging tides of discontent so that those on the shore would not be made too uncomfortable by the buffeting and onrushing waves. Some of the questions implied that our leadership would be judged in accordance with our capacity to "keep the Negro from going too far." The quotes are mine, but I think the phrase mirrors the thinking of the panelists as well as of many other white Americans.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

“Anything which does not change along the evolution path eventually perishes.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“As technology progresses, the need for unlearning becomes as essential as learning.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Hope comes as a companion; she slips her arm around your shoulder and offers to help you stumble toward change”
― Patsy Clairmont, I Grew Up Little: Finding Hope in a Big God

“Consistency beyond a point becomes change resistance.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The pace of technological developments is accelerating, and we are no more chasing a dear; instead, a tiger is chasing us.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Change approaches can't remain static in a dynamic world.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Everything we know today was unknown yesterday, and everything unknown today will be known tomorrow. We know so much, yet so much is unknown.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Despite technological advancements, there will never be a moment in the life of the human species where we would know everything.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Despite technological advancements, beliefs will continue to be part of our mental state, which will continue to create multiple perspectives.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Humans will never reach a stage where they know everything.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Conflicts exist on the borders of two perspectives.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Ideas emerge at the intersection of perspectives.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Conflicts create friction. Use the friction only to create a spark to trigger an idea, not burn relationships.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Imagination consumes most of our brain bandwidth. We have to imagine the future almost every moment.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Acceptance of realities reduces feelings of pain.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Change is painful because we are altering the old. Evolution is a pleasure because we are creating the new.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“A progress zone is a silver ring right outside your comfort zone where you feel comfortable even during uncomfortable circumstances.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Your sweet spot is a point outside your comfort zone where your energies amplify and your sense of achievement exceeds the discomforts of your sacrifices. What's your sweet spot?”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz