Change Quotes - Page 26

• That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.

  Pema Chodron

  Fleeting, Firsts, Process

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?

  Sarah Louise Delany

  World, Littles, Bits

  Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.118, Kodansha America

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• Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

  John Newman

  Differences, Environment, Paint

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• As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Self, Profound

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• Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging.

  Lawren Harris

  Unity, Mind, Watches

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• I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

  E. J. Hughes

  Cutting, Mind, Painting

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• It is through color changes that we go forward... all decisions come about as the picture is made and in response to painterly demands. The descriptive and anecdotal come second.

  Wolf Kahn

  Color, Decision, Demand

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• Winter always turns into Spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn.

  Nichiren

  Spring, Winter, Autumn

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

  Georg Baselitz

  Artist, Ideas, World

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• A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

  Mary Beth McKenzie

  Reality, Needs, Painting

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• With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

  Thomas Hoving

  Art, Definitions, Generations

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• I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

  Bern Will Brown

  Ideas, No Idea

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• As long as you can change paint, you don't change. For you to change - for paint to do something to you - paint must stay constant.

  Milton Resnick

  Long, Paint, Constant

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• Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.

  Oscar Wilde

  Meaningless

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• Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

  Blaise Pascal

  Continuity

  Blaise Pascal (2010). “Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works”, p.122, Cosimo, Inc.

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  I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  Stephen Hawking

  Life, Philosophy, Inspiration

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes - it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.

  Peter Drucker

  Long, Would Be, Upheaval

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.62, Routledge

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

  Isaac Asimov

  Business, Mean, Science

  "My Own View". "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction". Book edited by Robert Holdstock, 1978.

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• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

  Philip Pullman

  Being Yourself, Life Changing, Just Being You

  Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Long, Important

  On the Constitution (1787)

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• Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Growth, Belief, Assumption

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• The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Growth, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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