#change

She emptied herself of Fabio and of herself, of all the useless efforts she had made to get where she was and find nothing there. With detached curiosity she observed the rebirth of her weaknesses, her obsessions. This time she would let them decide, since she hadn't been able to do anything anyway. Against certain parts of yourself you remain powerless, she said to herself, as she regressed pleasurably to the time when she was a girl. ↗

— Paolo Giordano

#weaknesses #change

Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#frontiers #thoughts #change

Any final requests? This is going to be quick." "Yes, actually I'd like you to change your mind." "Not about to happen. ↗

— Sabrina Benulis

#change

When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#change

You can't change the fruit without changing the root. ↗

— Dr. Stephen R. Covey

#self-help #change

Don't change your body to get respect from society. Instead let's change society to respect our bodies. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#change

At its best, fantasy rewards the reader with a sense of wonder about what lies within the heart of the commonplace world. The greatest tales are told over and over, in many ways, through centuries. Fantasy changes with the changing times, and yet it is still the oldest kind of tale in the world, for it began once upon a time, and we haven't heard the end of it yet. ↗

— Patricia A. McKillip

#myth #reading #writing #change

Control your own Destiny or somebody else will ↗

— Jack Welch

#e-zsigma #islss #kaizen #leadership #lean

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.' page 21 ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#games-theory #change

It happened so long ago I can't even be sure it happened as I say it did. Stories change in the telling, memory makes up as much as it knows. We were very small. The things we saw were all mixed up with the things we dreamed and the things we were scared of. ↗

— David Almond

#david-almond #change