#changing

I couldn't speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I'm regarded as one of their own in Japan. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#awards #britain #british #changing #eligible

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position? ↗

— Joichi Ito

#am #audience #beyond #changing #compromising

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#aspire #changing #earnestly #frame #itself

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life. ↗

— Thomas Jane

#changing #constantly #gain #growing #life

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#changing #disposition #efforts #fruitless #happiness

Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song. ↗

— Kelly Jones

#because #changing #easier #edit #entire

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we must. We are willing to suffer the discomfort of change in order to achieve a better future. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#adapt #better #better future #change #changing

It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#becoming #changing #civilization #complicated #define

Changing things from the top down works when things are stable. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#down #stable #things #top #works

There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#always #been #changing #culture #difficult