OpEdNews - Page 13 of Article: Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion
Thomas Brackett Reed, 4-12-1878, Speech in House of Representatives

IDEAS
Most new things are not good and die an early death; but those, which push themselves forward, and by slow degree force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subect of unreasoning prejudice.
Thomas Brackett Reed, December, 1902, North American Review

CHANGE, LEADERSHIP, AWAKENING,
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times
Thomas Brackett Reed, 1839-1902

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Challenge of change, in NY Times Magazine, 7-27-1986

BLUSHING
"With every change his features played,
As aspens show the light and shade."
Scott

FUTURE, STABILITY, CHANGE, ADJUSTMENT,DESIRE, NEED, GREED, MOMENT
"The true felicity of life is to be free from perturbations; to understand our duties towards God and man; to enjoy the present without any serious dependence upon the future. Not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient; for he that is so, wants nothing. ... Tranquility is a certain equality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress."
Seneca

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change, we change.
Thoreau, Walden, Ch. XVIII

For every thought supported by feelings, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.
Todd, Mabel Ellsworth The Thinking Body

Conscience is the most changeable of guides.
Vauvenargues 133

GROWTH, LEARNING, EXPERIENCE, FLAWS, ERRORS, CHANGE, EVOLUTION
"The sages do not consider that making no mistakes is a blessing. They believe, rather, that the great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and continually to make a new man of himself."
Wang Yang Ming (15th century) quoted by Helena Kuo

DISCOVERY, DISAGREEMENT, CHANGE, AUTHORITY, BELIEF
I was taught to ask for proof, that it was good to distrust authority. You need to have the courage to disagree. There are times in your life when you should be a radical.
James D. Watson, 1993, (co discover of the DNA double helix)

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead

CHANGE, RISK, STABILITY, ACTION
Allons! we must not stop here!
However sweet these laid up stores however convenient this dwelling we cannot remain here;
However shelter'd this port, and however calm these waters, we must not anchor here;
However welcome the hospitality that surrounds us, we are permitted to receive it but a while.
Allons! the inducements shall be greater;
We will sail pathless and wild seas;
We will go where winds blow, waves dash, and the Yankee clipper speeds by under full sail.
Allons! with power, liberty, the earth, the elements!
Health, defiance, gayety, self esteem, curiosity
Whitman, Walt, Song of The Open Road

CONSERVATISM, CHANGE, IMAGINATION, CREATIVITY
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
Wilde, In Conversation

"Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change."
Wilde, The Critic as Artist

"How all things Change among men! How what was false
becomes true with the flight of Time."
Voltaire, Essai sur les Moeurs et lesprit des Nations ch 31

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