Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment.
Change Quotes
Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
I wanted a perfect ending… now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Certain things should just stay as they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
To say that a thing has never yet been done among men is to erect a barrier stronger than reason, stronger than discussion.
And the king wanted an inscription good for a thousand years and after that to the end of the world?” – “Yes, precisely so.” – “Something so true and awful that no matter what happened it would stand?” – “Yes, exactly that.” – “Something no matter who spit on it or laughed at it there […]
“Change” is a blank check – and as dangerous as any other blank check. There is no reason to be automatically for or against anything as vague and sweeping as change. Everything depends on the specific merits or demerits of particular changes. But the ease with which so many people embrace undefined “change” is scary. […]
Most new things are not good and die an early death; but those, which push themselves forward, and by slow degree force themselves on the attention of mankind are the unconscious productions of human wisdom and must have honest consideration, and must not be made the subject of unreasonable prejudice.
