#or

We are going to change the way young people think about fitness. ↗

— Gheorghe Muresan

#exercise #fitness #gheorghe-muresan #girls-fitness #health

The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease. ↗

— Jeff Deck

#change

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing. ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#sports

Please consult your child’s Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change. ↗

— Kenya Wright

#fire-baptized #humor #kenya-wright #sex-change #witch-doctor

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling. ↗

— Mira Bartok

#memory #change

Peering succeeds because it leverages self-organization—a style of production that works more effectively than hierarchical management for certain tasks. ↗

— Don Tapscott

#coordination #peering #change

I had this guy’s file pulled this morning, along with the rest of your neighbors. His name is Desperado.” Pause. A few seconds passed. He was waiting for my reaction. “Did you say Desperado?” I couldn’t stop the snort of laughter that bubbled to the surface. “Yeah,” the Director confirmed. “He changed his name when he turned eighteen. It was Melvin.” I was still laughing. “’Cause Desperado is so much better than Melvin. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#fantasy #fiction #humor #joseph-carter #keepers

حقيقة الأمر أنك تغير-شئت أم أبيت- فى الكون ,, و حاليا ! آمِن| Believe ↗

— Fayrouz Yasser

#آم-ن-believe #change

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. ↗

— Erik Larson

#nonfiction #st-louis #change

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also as components that can change... Now, though, we live in a world where text is fluid, where is responds to our instructions. Writing something down records it, but does not make it true or permanent. So why should we put up with a system we don't like simply because it's been written somewhere? ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#culture #power #society #systems #text