#han

It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5 ↗

— Jane McGonigal

#games-theory #change

Children working in the carpet industry often suffer from many health problems. These include breathing difficulties from inhaling the carpet fibres, arthritis in their fingers from tying the tiny knots, and growth deformities from working hunched over their looms for so long every day. ↗

— Craig Kielburger

#change

La vie est un voyage solitaire et, être mariée n'y change rien. D'ailleurs je pense que le fait de ressentir cette solitude avec la même intensité alors qu'en théorie on est deux est une souffrance encore plus cruelle. Il y a un facteur chance à l'origine de chaque rencontre, après on gère comme on peut ce que la vie nous donne. Or, c'est bien connu, la vie est injuste et, en plus elle a un goût douteux. ↗

— Agathe Colombier Hochberg

#couple #mariage #vie #change

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Anatole France

#change

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#change

And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which changes, they supposed that it is impossible to make any true statement about that which is in all ways and entirely changeable. For it was from this supposition that there blossomed forth the most extreme view of those which we have mentioned, that of the professed followers of Heraclitus, and such as Cratylus held, who ended by thinking that one need not say anything, and only moved his finger; and who criticized Heraclitus for saying that one cannot enter the same river twice, for he himself held that it cannot be done even once. ↗

— Aristotle

#heraclitus #metaphysics #change

Such, said Nekayah, is the state of life, none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish it to change again. The world is not yet exhausted. Let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#change

Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with. ↗

— Eli Pariser

#privacy #change

A man could shoot thirty ducks if it pleased him, and then shoot thirty more the next day, and it was perfectly legal. His hunting partner was likely to be the county sheriff. ↗

— Stefan Bechtel

#hunting #change

I believe that the biggest mistake that most people make when it comes to their retirement is they do not plan for it. They take the same route as Alice in the story from “Alice in Wonderland,” in which the cat tells Alice that surely she will get somewhere as long as she walks long enough. It may not be exactly where you wanted to get to, but you certainly get somewhere. ↗

— Mark Singer

#retirement #change