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  • Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

    Speech on the Occasion of the Opening of the Governor General's Canadian Leadership Conference by Adrienne Clarkson in Winnipeg, archive.gg.ca. May 07, 2004.
  • In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.

  • Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.

    Men   Light   World  
    Henry Thomas Buckle (1868). “History of Civilization in England”, p.349
  • When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.

    Wise   Moral   Wealth  
    John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”
  • "Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

    Fun   Next   Looks  
    Source: www.esquire.com
  • Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

  • Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

    "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
  • It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

    Country   Party   Long  
    'Phineas Redux' (1874) ch. 4
  • This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty

    Change   Real   War  
  • Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into something that you love. Rather than making anger your problem, let creativity be your object of meditation. Shift from anger to creativity and immediately you will see a great change arising in you. And tomorrow the same things will not feel like excuses for being angry because now energy is moving, is channelised, is being sublimated, is enjoying itself, its dance. Who cares about small things?

  • People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

    Men   People   Lifetime  
  • When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

    Speech at trial, Cleveland, Ohio, 12 Sept. 1918 See Ibsen 16; Sydney Smith 14
  • Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1969). “America the Beautiful”
  • The world is experiencing great change, but you've got loads of people terrified of this change and the Donald Trumps, the Boris Johnsons making utterly simplistic, reductionist policy proposals that are unrealistic but then people buy it up.

    People   World   Proposal  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • Flexibility in a time of great change is a vital quality of leadership.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Oct 16, 2013
  • They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

    Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Nothing is so clear in history that is it happens for any one thing. It seems that a lot of things come together to make great changes.

    Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.
  • The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

    Cancer   Order   Roles  
    Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1086, Spectra
  • To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

    Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books
  • You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

    War   Eye   Beer  
  • Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

  • Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour.

    Eye   Men   Thinking  
    Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets”, p.399
  • We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

  • All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

    Massachusetts Historical Society, John Adams, Samuel Adams, James Warren (1917). “Warren-Adams Letters: Being Chiefly a Correspondence Among John Adams, Samuel Adams, and James Warren ... 1743-1814”
  • In this war, which was total in every sense of the word, we have seen many great changes in military science. It seems to me that not the least of these was the development of psychological warfare as a specific and effective weapon.

  • We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

    Rights   People   Trying  
    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • Every great change is simple.

  • Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

    Class   Ideas   Dancing  
    John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press
  • When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exulted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the highest virtues.

    Years   Two   Quality  
    John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”
  • What great changes have not been ambitious?

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