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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

The prime minister has shown great weakness and he has had to make a humiliating retreat.

The prime minister says he has a vision for change, well put that to the people of the country.
David Cameron

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
Kurt Lewin

It is time for change, and the change is going to come in less than 48 hours. [Predicting a win for Kerry in 2004 US Presidential elections]
Stevie Wonder

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the centre of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert Camus

We are bound no longer by the straightjacket of the past [and] nowhere is the change greater than in our profession of arms. What, you may well ask, will be the end of all of this? I would not know! But I would hope that our beloved country will drink deep from the chalice of courage.
Douglas Macarthur

Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver.
Mary Douglas

Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
Glenda Cloud

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
Doug Fresh

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
D H Lawrence

And it was not until Kevin Pietersen came in and took the way things away from Australia that things really changed. It was a sensational innings. [2005 Ashes win at the Oval]
Marcus Trescothick

Spoon bending obviously must have some ordinary explanation, since a hundred people from all walks of life we're doing it. And it was hard to feel any sort of mystery: you just rub the spoon for a while and pretty soon it gets soft, and it bends. And that's that.
The only thing I noticed is that spoon bending seemed to require a focused in attention. You had to try to get it to bend, and then you had to forget about it. Maybe talk to someone else while you rubbed the spoon. Or look around the room. Change your attention. That's when it was likely to bend
Michael Crichton

I really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
Donna Fargo

Life changes every Friday here
Karishma Kapoor

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.
Kristen Swanson

I'll never change. I'm just little old me. [upon winning]
Chantelle Houghton

People change and forget to tell each other
Lillian Hellman

Change is something's having incompatible properties at different times.
D H Mellor

What's now urgently needed [to stop environmental disaster] is the international political commitment to take action to avoid dangerous climate change.
David Miliband

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin Wilson

These so-called big stars are people we are supposed to be looking up to. Well they are weak and soft.

Priorities have changed in football and they are being dictated to by their wives.
Roy Keane

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
Billy Graham

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke

To learn, a person must want to change, to be better, to do differently, and this resistance does not occur without resistance.
Lloyd Cook

Lateral thinking is concerned not with playing with the existing pieces but with seeking to change those very pieces. It is concerned with the perception part of thinking. This is where we organise the external world into the pieces we can then ‘process’
Edward De Bono

'If you want anything to actually change or to move ahead in your life you actually have to do it yourself, you can´t sit there and wait for somebody or talk about what you might want, you know, you should actually keep dreams and desires inside and let them burn a little bit, and then they might come true'
Russell Crowe

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty

I don't get what my signiture is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange
Nana Visitor

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not
liberate, it oppresses.
Joe Ancis

When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.
Roy Rogers

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering

Swingers was the name given to conkers that you could never hit - how times change!
Anonymous

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Alfred Hitchcock

You can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.
Ogden Nash

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard Bach

If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
Hilary Clinton

I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales
Ian Lucas

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe were laid down at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all
Francois De Salignac Fenelon

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
Alexander Chase

The most conservative man in this world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.
Ernest Bevin

The first three-quarters of last season went well for me, but the final part is best forgotten - My situation with Sir Alex started to change and it became difficult for me and him to work together.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.
David Miliband

A blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics [on what GB will bring to the leadership of the Labour party]
Liam Byrne

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
Michael Phelps

Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Kahlil Gibran

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch

If you own a car, you change that every few years and that's just what I'm doing with my appearance
Pete Burns

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz



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