CHANGE: ‘Change is in all things sweet.’ — Aristotle ‘We must change in order to survive.’ — Pearl Bailey ‘Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.’ — Napoleon Boneparte ‘Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future.’ — Ashleigh Brilliant In order to learn one must change one’s mind.’ — Orson Scott Card ‘Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.’ — Carlos Castaneda To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.’ — Winston Churchill ‘It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.’ — Charles Darwin They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.’ — Confucius ‘It is only the wisest and the stupidest that do not change.’ — Confucius ‘When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.’ — Benjamin Franklin ‘In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.’ — J. Paul Getty ‘Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.’ — Woodie Guthrie ‘There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that; it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.’ — Washington Irving ‘Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.’ — Robert Kennedy ‘There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.’ — John Fitzgerald Kennedy ‘We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.’ — R. D. Laing ‘The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.’ — Martin Luther King ‘Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.’ — Helen Keller ‘Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.’ — Margaret Mead ‘And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.’ — Thomas More ‘An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.’ — Max Planck ‘They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.’ — Andy Warhol ‘The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.’ — Mark Twain ‘Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.’ — Arthur Schopenhauer PREJUDICE: ‘You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.’ — Leonardo Da Vinci ‘Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary.’ — Albert Einstein ‘Prejudice is the child of ignorance.’ — William Hazlitt ‘The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.’ — Charles F. Kettering ‘We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.’ — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ‘New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones.’ — Franklin D. Roosevelt ‘The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.’ — Carl Rogers ‘Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from poor judgment.’ — Will Rogers ‘Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.’ — Jean Jaques Rousseau ‘If you judge people, you have no time to love them.’ — Mother Theresa ‘Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.’ — Voltaire RISK: ‘Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.’ — T. S. Eliot ‘If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.’ — Neil Simon ‘The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.’ — Erica Jong ‘Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.’ — Ray Bradbury MADNESS: ‘The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a new result.’ — Albert Einstein ‘If at first the idea is not totally absurd then there is no hope for it.’ — Albert Einstein ‘We all know your idea is crazy. The question is whether it is crazy enough.’ — Niels Bohr ‘The extreme limit of wisdom--that is what the public calls madness.’ — Jean Cocteau ‘There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.’ — Salvador Dali ‘Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.’ — R. D. Laing ‘Madness is rare in individuals—but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.’ — Friedrich Nietzsche ‘What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.’ — Augustus Saint-Gaudens DEVIATION: ‘He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.’ — Albert Einstein ‘Beaten paths are for beaten men.’ — John Lubbock ‘If you follow all of the rules, you’ll miss all of the fun.’ — Katherine Hepburn ‘Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.’ — Frank Zappa ‘Only dead fish swim with the stream.’ — Malcolm Muggeridge | 
