The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.
Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
You know, I don't really do that much looking inside me when I'm working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.
But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change. You've got to be boisterous to get results.
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.