January 8, 2008 at 16:35:16

Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?

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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
Bertrand Russell

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never e able to change reality.
Anwar Sadat

CHANGE, CHAOS, ACTION, CREATE, JUXTAPOSE
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
Sallust, 86-35 BC, Catiline

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now. Another I is beginning.
George Sand

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the reasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.
B. F. Skinner

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any momemnt taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders
Rabindrath Tabore

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if..." or better still, "How can we make it happen?"
Lisa Taylor

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

BASICS CHANGE HUMANITY POLITICS, TRANSIENCE, IMPORTANCE
The improvements of ages have had little influence on the essential laws of man's existence.
Thoreau

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor
Arnold Toynbee

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