#ang

Growing up changes more than playground games and body shapes. ↗

— Emma Cameron

#changes #growing-up #playground-games #change

Sometimes I wonder if I've changed so much, my wife is even gonna recognize me whenever it is I get back to her, and how I'll ever be able to, tell about days like today. Ahh, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan, I don't care. The man means nothing to me; he's just a name. But if, you know, if going to Rem"al, and finding him so he can go home, if that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well then, then that's my mission. ↗

— Max Allan Collins

#change

If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams? ↗

— Yann Martel

#change

I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes. ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#change

A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one else cares (or even knows) about anyway. A good philosophical thought will always be subject to criticisms (as Heidegger’s or Whitehead’s best insights all are) but they are of such elegance and depth that they change the terms of debate, and function as a sort of “obligatory passage point” (Latour’s term) in the discussions that follow. Or in other words, the reason Being and Time is still such a classic, with hundreds of thousands or millions of readers almost a century later, is not because Heidegger made “fewer mistakes” than others of his generation. Mistakes need to be cleaned up, but that is not the primary engine of personal or collective intellectual progress. ↗

— Graham Harman

#change

It'll be a change," says Marcus. "Something different." "Not a mystery." Marcus laughs. "No. Not a mystery. Just a nice safe history." Ah, my darling. But there is no such thing. ↗

— Kate Morton

#history #mystery #writing #change

Sometimes, war can make a change. Sometimes, change can ignite a war. ↗

— Toba Beta

#war #change

Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010) ↗

— Seymour Simon

#children #climate-change #earth-day #global-warming #seymour-simon

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#interpretation #perception #thinking #thought #world

There's a simple, but oft-neglected lesson here: to sustain success, you have to be willing to abandon things that are no longer successful. ↗

— Gary Hamel

#grit #success #change