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“The restoration of German vitality is not guaranteed by the status quo ante. It will also be necessary to make territorial changes; don't let us hamper our statesmen with assertions to the effect that the German people do not want this.”
Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the Reichstag (1 March 1917), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (1941), p. 135
“The philosophy of friendship has definitely paid off, because after all the highs and lows we’re still sticking together and we haven’t lost the passion for what we’re doing. In the Seventies, there were few changes, then we had this line-up with Herman [Rarebell] and Francis [Buchholz] for almost twenty years.”
Klaus Meine (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Actually, each generation likes to think of itself as at the pivot point in history, that in its time the great decision is made which puts man either on the true road or the false. But things aren’t really that serious. Truthfully, the way of mankind is too massive to be kinked, suddenly; it only changes direction in a long and gradual bend over many generations.”
Gordon R. Dickson (1923–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In every society, from the most primitive to the most advanced, it is essential that labor be applied to production and that goods be distributed among the members of society. What changes in the course of history is the way in which these productive and distributive activities are organized and carried out.”
Paul Sweezy (1910–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The remarkable similarity of metabolic pathways and gene sequences across the phyla argues strongly that all modern organisms are derived from a common evolutionary progenitor by a series of small changes (mutations), each of which conferred a selective advantage to some organism in some ecological niche.”
Albert L. Lehninger (1917–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.”
Lionel Messi (born 1987) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with TyC Sports, 2014
“Monetary policy affects the ... of goods and assets and (iii) effects through changes in explicit or implicit real interest rates on aggregate demand.”
Rudiger Dornbusch (1942–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Economics presents us with a powerful, and not necessarily complex, set of analytical tools that can be used to look back and explain why events unfolded the way they did; to look around and make sense of the world; and to look forward so that we can anticipate the effects of major policy changes. Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.”
Charles Wheelan (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ghosts are not the souls of the dead, but the souls of people written out of history when history changes.”
Alastair Reynolds (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dangers of allowing foreign ownership of India’s critical infrastructure and foreign control over information flow on that infrastructure cannot be overstated. Especially when the foreign hand has a history of facilitating civil wars and regime changes.”
Rajiv Malhotra (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All those Creationism vs. Evolution debates are misaligned and misleading. The real debate should be Creationism vs. Abiogenesis. Creationism is a belief about a supernatural origin of life. Evolution is a theory about how life changes over time. Those are not the same things. Abiogenesis is the science of life’s origin that logically stands in direct opposition to creationism.”
Guy P. Harrison (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We've maintained accelerating growth over time [in part because of] changes in our institutions. We have things like universities . . . patent laws, [and] research grants which have created incentives for those individuals [who develop innovations] to engage in more discovery. . . . [T]he rules of the game create incentives . . .”
Paul Romer (born 1955) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EconTalk podcast hosted by Russ Roberts. "Romer on Growth" (quote starts at 20 minutes, 02 seconds) Sponsored by Liberty Fund's Library of Economics and Liberty. Podcast release date: August 27, 2007.
“John Cage and I became interested in the use of chance in the 50's. I think one of the very primary things that happened then was the publication of the "I Ching," the Chinese book of changes, from which you can cast your fortune: the hexagrams.”
Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“..the bond is then shown to be a sort of identity of thought, of reaction to the endless small changes, taking place in one brother and immediately passed on to the other, because feeding an idea was always a double barrel, and was eventually enforced after the echo had passed between the two [brothers Van Gogh].”
Ossip Zadkine (1888–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's our (Council of Labor Affairs) responsibility to take care of financially disadvantaged families. We've seen a better economy and we know there must be changes.”
Wang Ju-hsuan (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Wang Ju-hsuan (2011) cited in "Minimum wage to be increased by five percent" on The China Post, 22 July 2011.
“The moderns were interested in what was likely to come of such changes and their general tendency: they thought about the thing itself, substantively, in utopian or essential fashion.”
Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After his encounter with Jesus, a real Christian changes his conduct.”
Robert Sarah (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The smaller the mammal, the more it is confined to smaller geographic areas. A small mammal is also more susceptible to subtle changes in climate and environment. ...On average, the absence or presence of smaller species provides more precise clues to past conditions in an area than does the information gained from study of the bone assemblages of the larger animals.”
Jeffrey H. Schwartz (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The expression "a machine is driven by heat" is not... strictly accurate. ...[I]n consequence of the changes produced by heat upon ...matter in the machine, the parts ...are set in motion. ...[T]his matter ...[is] that which manifests the action of heat.”
Rudolf Clausius (1822–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.”
Michael Dell (born 1965) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Forbes: "A Private Conversation with Michael Dell, 'The Man In The Arena'" (30 October 2013)
“Feminism, or full and complete personhood for women, is an idea. And each human being has to do the work to explore it, build a relationship to it, and understand what their own changes must be in order to be part of it.”
Sarah Schulman (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must understand that changes have to happen, but not with our uncompromising attitude. It can happen only when we are being wise, being intelligent and by attracting support from every quarter.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2021) cited in: "YOURSAY | Harapan, do principles no longer matter?" in MalaysiaKini, 7 November 2021.
“Give Pakatan Harapan a chance to set up a clean and authoritative government. The mandate you give is a responsibility for us to bring drastic changes to the country.”
Anwar Ibrahim (born 1947) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anwar Ibrahim (2022) cited in: "Malaysia GE2022: Anwar Ibrahim lends his star power to defend PH seats in KL and Selangor" in The Straits Times, 16 November 2022.
“War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it worse. It changes the fear. At the Institute, I feared men. I feared what Titus and the Jackal could do to me. You see death coming there and can at least struggle against it. Here, you don't have such luxury. Modern war is fearing the air, the shadows, fearing the silence. Death will come and I won't even see it.”
Pierce Brown (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As new generations of activists come forward with new ideas and sensibilities; as the political landscape evolves and changes; as new technologies are born and developed; and as the mercurial focus of issues present new concerns and dangers… Our strength, creativity, harnessed rage and effective activism will remain constant and be the root source of our salvation in the future.”
Jeffrey Montgomery (1953–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without precise predictability, control is impotent and almost meaningless. In other words, the lesser the predictability, the harder the entity or system is to control, and vice versa. If our universe actually operated on linear causality, with no surprises, uncertainty, or abrupt changes, all future events would be absolutely predictable in a sort of waveless orderliness.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The boot and shoe makers, either as shoemakers or “cordwainers,” have been the earliest and the most strenuous of American industrialists in their economic struggles. A highly skilled and intelligent class of tradesmen, widely scattered, easily menaced by commercial and industrial changes, they have resorted with determination at each new menace to the refuge of protective organizations.”
John R. Commons (1862–1945) first seen 1648 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John R. Commons, "American shoemakers, 1648-1895: A sketch of industrial evolution." The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1909): 39-84.
“In practice, the managerial decision to tackle organizational and systems changes is made even more difficult by the way in which problems become visible. Usually a global systems problem first comes into view in the form of local symptoms. Rarely do such problems show up where the real underlying causes are.”
Kenichi Ohmae (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The effective organization of industrial resources... alters in important respects in conformity with changes in extrinsic factors.”
Tom Burns (1913–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 96, as cited in: Richard Whittington (2014), Corporate Strategies in Recession and Recovery, p. 40
“Nature in fact the best and wisest is an architect and urban planner. (...) The history of establishing gardens and orchards throughout the centuries in Poland is worth knowing, taking into consideration changes in fashions and the foreign influences. Unfortunately, not many objects from those days manifesting the love of nature by man have remained till the present days.”
Marek Żukow-Karczewski (born 1961) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gardens and orchards in the old Poland, "Aura" 11, 1987-11, p.17-18.
“A company's culture is often buried so deeply inside rituals, assumptions, attitudes, and values that it becomes transparent to an organization's members only when, for some reason, it changes.”
Rob Goffee (born 1952) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rob Goffee, cited in: Jürgen Rothlauf (2015), A Global View on Intercultural Management. p. 85
“Under norms of rationality, organizations seek to anticipate and adapt to environmental changes which cannot be buffered or leveled.”
James D. Thompson (1920–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the changes in technological complexity, especially in information technology, the leadership task has changed. Leadership in a networked organization is a fundamentally different thing from leadership in a traditional hierarchy.”
Edgar H. Schein (1928–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.”
Marshall Goldsmith (born 1949) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 125 (in 2010 edition)
“There’s no single right way to accomplish your goals. Each of us has a number of avenues to reach our potential. The world constantly changes. Life often unfolds as a series of phases. Our potential is likely to evolve as the world evolves and as we continue to learn, grow, and develop our capabilities.”
Robert S. Kaplan (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Product of complex interactions within and between the organization’s social structure, leadership groups and environment. ... They are never static but subject to continual pressure and changes over time.”
Charles Perrow (1925–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For our purposes then, the bureaucratic model refers to an organization which attempts to control extra-organizational influences (stemming from the characteristics of personnel and changes in the environment) through the creation of specialized (staff) positions and through such rules and devices as regulations and categorization.”
Charles Perrow (1925–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Changes don't come along in nice annual packages, so the need for strategy work is episodic, not necessarily annual.”
Richard Rumelt (born 1942) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Richard P. Rumelt in: "Guru Richard Rumelt," at economist.com, Dec. 26 2008.
“In some cases the changes may represent just one part of a general improvement program. Such steps as the following, for example, will generally affect the organization structure:”
Ernest Dale (1917–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like the biologist, the economist predicts the effects of environmental changes on the surviving class of living organisms; the economist need not assume that each participant is aware of, or acts according to, his cost and demand situation.”
Armen Alchian (1914–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Bréal, semantics was the science the subject matter of which was study of the cause and structure of the processes of changes in meanings of words: expansion and contraction of meanings, transfer of meanings, elevation and degradation of their value, etc.”
Adam Schaff (1913–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In that second part we propose to investigate how it happens that words, once created and endowed with a certain meaning, extend that meaning or contract it, transfer it from one group of notions on to another, raise its value or lower it, in a word — bring about changes. It is this second part that constitutes semantics, i.e. science of meaning.”
Michel Bréal (1832–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 99 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:4).
“In modern society, the meaning of words changes much more quickly than it did in antiquity or even in the recent past. This arises from the intermingling of social classes, the struggle of interests and opinions, the struggle of political parties and the variety of aspirations and tastes.”
Michel Bréal (1832–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 104-5 ; as cited in: Schaff (1962:14).
“But for today, yesterday, tomorrow, it is not important. Time goes on without any of us. Only a belief, a state of mind, endures, and even that changes constantly, but underneath there are two main kinds—the one that says, Here you must stop knowing, and the other which says, Learn. Right or wrong, the fruit was eaten, and there can’t ever be a going back. I have made my choice.”
Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Comprehensive lifestyle changes may be able to bring about regression of even severe coronary atherosclerosis after only 1 year, without use of lipid-lowering drugs.”
Dean Ornish (born 1953) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Can lifestyle changes reverse coronary heart disease?" (Ornish et al.), The Lancet (21 July 1990).
“When you eat a healthy, whole foods, plant-based diet, it changes the expression of your genes. It turns on the good genes, turns off the bad genes. Your genes are a predisposition, but your genes are not your fate. And even if your mother and your father and aunts and uncles all died of diabetes, cancer, even heart disease, it doesn't mean that you need to.”
Dean Ornish (born 1953) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in the documentary-film The Game Changers by Louie Psihoyos (2018).
“I want to love everyone', I thought, almost tearfully. If you stare at the sky, it changes little by little. Gradually it turns bluish. [..] I had never seen anything as beautiful as the translucent leaves and grass. Gently, I reached out to the touch of the grass.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of preventive health is that we do something now so that nothing bad happens later. You eat a healthier diet now to avoid disease later. You have tremendous power over your health destiny. The vast majority of premature deaths can be prevented with simple changes in what you eat and how you live. In other words, a long and healthy life is largely a matter of choice.”
Michael Greger (born 1972) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Michael Greger, How Not to Die (2025 Edition), Part 2. From Conclusion, at p.466. 470.
“A foreign visitor to the Berlin Stock Exchange would easily be deceived. There are announcements of daily quotations and price changes as though a free Stock Exchanged still existed, but nowhere would he find the former ‘public’— private buyers and sellers—as represented by independent brokers, bankers and ‘visitors.’”
Günter Reimann (1904–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The larger the big corporations grow and the closer they become connected with the State bureaucracy, the fewer changes there are for the rise of new competitors.”
Günter Reimann (1904–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source