#ang

You're suppose to lay down and close your eyes when you are dreaming. ↗

— Michael W. Gardner

#change

When a Lady chooses to Change Her Mind,' said the Mouse with a touch of hauteur, 'a Gentleman would consider it no more than her Privilege, and not Badger Her About It. ↗

— Noel Langley

#change

T.S. Eliot deems dangerous the tendency "to associate tradition with the immovable; to think of it as something hostile to all change; to aim to return to some previous condition which we imagine as having been capable of preservation in perpetuity". "Tradition without intelligence, he challenges, "is not worth having. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#tradition #change

Today...major actors and actresses develop their own projects or, at the very least, cherry-pick their roles carefully to suit not only their tastes but also whatever image they have cultivated to present to their public. Most major stars have their own production companies through which such projects are developed and even financed. While the biggest male stars of that time did in fact have their own production companies--Jimmy Stewart, Kirk Douglas, John Wayne, and Burt Lancaster, to name a few--and thus exerted creative and financial control over their careers, that was not the case with female stars. But Marilyn Monroe was about to change that. ↗

— J. Randy Taraborrelli

#marilyn-monroe #old-hollywood #progress #change

It's Not about trying to change the world, i'ts about trying not to be changed by it. ↗

— LIGHTS Poxlieter

#change

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change. ↗

— Graham Greene

#greeneland #life #mutability #change

The stove, she knew, wished it were a volcano, the humble teaspoons wished they were steamshovels, and the sink wished it were a well so all the others could have their wishes. Yet they all stayed exactly the same no matter what they wished, no matter what they saw and heard. ↗

— Georgess McHargue

#childhood #time #wishes #change

Once people learned how to believe in something, that skill started spilling over to other parts of their lives, until they started believing they could change. Belief was the ingredient that made a reworked habit loop into a permanent behavior. ↗

— Charles Duhigg

#habit #mind #psychology #change

Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#personality #views #ways-people-live #change

I'm tired of being crushed by the weight of men that believe in nothing, I have to change that. ↗

— Jackson Teller Sons of Anarchy

#inspirational #truth #change