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You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.
Writings and Drawings
How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.
The Story of a New Name
Change means avoiding the predictable and known ways of doing things which we learn to adjust to.
Managing to Survive (1993)
You can't permit a honeymoon of small changes over a year or two. A long series of small changes just prolongs the pain.
Harvard Business Review (1991)
The most constant thing is change.
Change before you have to.
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.
Freedom
If we live near a train station, it completely changes our lives. We get the impression that we are passing through. Nothing is definite. In either day, we ended up boarding a train.
La Petite Bijou
Be the change you wish to be.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays