Play uppe, play uppe, O Boston bells!
Play all your changes, all your swells (The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire)
Jean IngelowFor changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Anthony RobbinsCompany cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter F DruckerYouth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit
Duc De La RochefoucauldI'm a catalyst for change … You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.
Rupert MurdochI think my life will change quite a lot - but maybe it deserves to because I did very well [on his Wimbledon performance]
Andrew Murrayyou want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Mao ZedongIn all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards
Gary Lee PhillipsYou can take it as understood,
That your luck changes only if it's good.
Ogden NashThe more things change, the more they are the same
Alphonse KarrWhen he has tried to change his personality for PR purposes, it's been excruciatingly embarrassing... I think he's much better off being himself [on gordon brown]
Vince CableAs man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
Charles ChesnuttLove is something eternal - the aspect may change but not the essence
Vincent Van GoghUnless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Margaret ThatcherThere are good reasons for doing this now, because of the change to technology, the fact that we will have to pay for biometric passports and the ID card part of it is a very small additional cost [on introducing ID cards]
Tony BlairA great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl NightingaleThings have changed at Torquay in the last two years - Mike Bateson was the chairman, and he's still the chairman now.
Hamish MarshallThe meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Richard BachTime is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.
Jesse JacksonIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles DarwinThe weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
David LettermanIn New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.
Conan O'BrienYou will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.
Robert SchullerIt appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
Derrick BellChange is something's having incompatible properties at different times.
D H MellorStrong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul RichterThe ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Emma GoldmanTechnology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.
Dan GlickmanVision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
Joel A BarkerYou can't help but change a little bit, but on the inside I'm still completely the same person.
Britney SpearsBut there is no danger of my not concentrating on cricket. I'm comfortable on the pitch, and that will never change. I have to remember what I do for a living
Andrew FlintoffI am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
Pearl BuckAn award does not change the quality of a book.
Charles Van AllsburgIt is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.
Paul GauguinThe theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
Adam SmithConstitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander HamiltonIf you do not change the direction in which you are going, you will end up where you are headed.
ConfuciusIt is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
Millard FillmoreThe danger in media concentration comes not from the concentration, but instead from the feudalism that this concentration, tied to the change in copyright, produces.
Lawrence LessigMy cancer scare changed my life. I'm grateful for every new, healthy day I have. It has helped me prioritize my life.
Olivia Newton-JohnKnow what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
Bill WattersonA change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
Jenny CraigThe mind has exactly the same power as the hands; not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
Colin WilsonThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy WarholEconomics are the method; the object is to change the soul.
Margaret ThatcherNay, why should I fear Death,
Who gives us life, and in exchange takes breath?
Frederic Lawrence KnowlesIt is evident that scepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Ambrose BierceLet the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change [at including the welsh dragon on the Union Jack]
Ian LucasChange your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent PealeSpoon 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
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