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Change Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not…
- In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep…
- ...we're told by TV and Reader's Digest that a crisis will trigger massive personal change--and that those big changes will make the pain worthwhile. But…
- If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you? It'll still be happening to an unchanged person.
- ...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those…
- Here's what I think: the five most unattractive traits in people are cheapness, clinginess, neediness, unwillingness to change and jealousy. Jealousy is the worst, and…
- We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media…
- Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over…
- For many people, myself included, the end of the world is happening all the time! It is a form of criticality that paradoxically gives us…
- The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using…
More Change Quotes
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless… — Aristotle
- Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing. — Nancy Astor
- There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it. — David Attenborough
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important.… — David Attenborough
- Always remember that the future comes one day at a time. — Dean Acheson
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight. — Marcus Aurelius