Wordgrove Post & Review ~ 01/25/22

01/25/2022 by Dan Jack/BarTalk

THIS EDITION: change

Quoted In The Grove:

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
~Adlai E Stevenson

Change is such hard work.
~Billy Crystal

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.
~Boris Becker

EndQuote:
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
~Buckminster Fuller

Prewritten PROMPT for 02/08: pet

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.
~Author Unknown

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.
~James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
~Bill Gates

After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
~Alfred Edward Perlman

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
~Anthony de Mello

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything
~George Bernard Shaw

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
~Shunryu Suzuki

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
~Denis Waitley

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
~Harrison Ford

Things do not change; we change.
~Henry David Thoreau

I don’t change. The things around me change.
~Jeremy Renner

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
~Max Frisch

It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
~Roy T Bennett

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you choose your friends, don’t be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
~W Somerset Maugham

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.
~Steve Maraboli

Habits change into character.
~Ovid

Our heads are round so thought can change direction.
~Allen Ginsberg

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
~Rumi

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
~Wayne Dyer

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom.
~Malcolm X

We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
~Ally Condie

There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
~H G Wells

People can’t live with change if there’s not a changeless core inside them.
~Stephen R Covey

If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
~Timothy Leary

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
~William Glasser

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Posted From The Grove

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
~Will Smith

One of the things that happens when people make the leap from a certain amount of money to tens of millions of dollars is that the people around you dramatically change.
~Dave Chappelle

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
~Jack Welch

You don’t implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you’re going to do this change and what’s going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you’re not going to do it.
~Carlos Ghosn

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
~H L Hunt

Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.
~Jack Welch

It’s easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don’t change, your field changes around you.
~Walter Gilbert

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
~Zig Ziglar

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
~Denis Waitley

Logic will never change emotion or perception.
~Edward de Bono

People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
~Sharon Stone

Money changes all the iron rules into rubber bands.
~Ryszard Kapuscinski

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
~Kiran Desai

Things change, people change, but that doesn’t mean you should forget the past.
~Gail Carson Levine

Change isn’t always for the best.
~Nicholas Sparks

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
~Charles R Swindoll

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
~Charles Revson

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
~Mary Pickford

Change your life today.
Don’t gamble on the future,
act now, without delay.
~Simone De Beauvoir

Adapt yourself to change as the willow tree adapts itself to the weather. When the harsh winds of circumstance sweep across the landscape of your life, bow gracefully, bend gently, adapt graciously.
..in the midst of conflict and crisis, the willow willingly bends its branches, but refuses to release its roots.
~William Arthur Ward

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
~Victor Hugo

According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment… the civilization that is able to survive is the one that is able to adapt to the changing physical, social, political, moral, and spiritual environment in which it finds itself.
~Leon C Megginson

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.
~Author Unknown

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.
~C JoyBell C

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
~Victor Frankl

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~Jimmy Dean

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.
~Kiran Desai

~Joshua Freedman: Change (7:00) they introduce, then talk about it

~Stephan Burchardt: Change (1:35) impetus, a poem

~National Geographic: Time Lapse – Watch Flowers Bloom (3:24) they change

~kadeline kalde: A Change of Clothes (5:15) committing to integrity of task, a painting emerges

~LBOX: Changes (2:36) out of step > to in vogue > to… animated

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
~Robert Frost

Change is the end result of all true learning.
~Leo Buscaglia

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
~Eric Hoffer

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man
~Pope John Paul II

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
~Joyce Meyer

Change your thoughts and you change your world.
~Norman Vincent Peale

Don’t just change, transform.
~Roy T Bennett

The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It’s constantly stimulating, it’s like a slap in the face.
~Carter Burwell

Living things tend to change unrecognizably as they grow.
~Diane Ackerman

All things must change to something new, to something strange.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.
~Author unknown

Climate change is a controversial subject, right? People will debate whether there is climate change… that’s a whole political debate that I don’t want to get into. I want to talk about the frequency of extreme weather situations, which is not political.
~Andrew Cuomo

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.
~Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
~Shirley MacLaine

I can’t say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.
~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
~Gary Oldman

I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
~Sting

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.
~Alicia Witt

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.
~Jeanne Moreau

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
~Debra Winger

I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.
~Enrique Iglesias

I wouldn’t change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
~Sidney Poitier

I wouldn’t change a thing about what I’ve done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
~Minnie Driver

I wouldn’t change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
~Ethel Merman

There are tragedies in life that change us forever, the person we once were mistakenly listed among the survivors.
~Robert Brault

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There were no violins or warning bells… no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.
~Stephen King

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.
~Paulo Coelho

Sometimes you just need to be open to the universe’s alternate plans for you.
~Terri Guillemets

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
~Lao Tzu

~Omeleto: Crescendo (15:02) a decision foiled by fate

~Omeleto: Ur Dead to Me (10:07) the language of flowers, for afterwards

~Omeleto: Junction (7:12) set expectations to zero, then immerse, animated

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.
~Marat Safin

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!
~Peter Senge

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have trying to change others.
~Arnold H Glasow

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
~Marilyn vos Savant

Taste may change, but inclination never.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
~William James

Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions.
~Leo Buscaglia

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
~Paulo Coelho

You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.
~Roy T Bennett

Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around.
~Roy T Bennett

We do not knowingly choose unhappiness over happiness. Rather we choose security over risk, stability over change, what seems permanent over what seems fleeting. We choose unhappiness because it has a better chance to be lasting.
~Robert Brault

Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.
~Robert Brault

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
~Saul Alinsky

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~Arnold Bennett

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
~Kakuzo Okakaura

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
~Mignon McLaughlin

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
~Bob Dylan

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
~Winston Churchill

Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills.
~Dr SunWolf

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
~Ellen Glasgow

Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
~Rudy Giuliani

Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.
~Matthew Flickstein

In this world of change, naught which comes stays, and naught which goes is lost.
~Madame Swetchine

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
~Robert Byrne

I will not carry a thing to its culmination simply because I entered in. I may have said I wanted it, but I will have the courage to say, “I have changed my mind.”
~Muriel Strode

I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

If you never change your mind, why have one?
~Edward de Bono

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
~Dean Koontz

A person can’t change all at once.
~Stephen King

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.
~Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Sometimes you see little changes fluttering their pennons to show you that a great change is on its way.
~Henry Stanley Haskins

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
~John Steinbeck

§ MUSIC:

I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
~Snoop Dogg

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
~Ravi Shankar

Music can change the world because it can change people.
~Bono

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I’m far more open now.
~Shaun White

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
~Miranda Lambert

True change takes place in the imagination.
~Thomas Moore

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.
~Arthur Smith

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you’re hopefully gaining wisdom and you’re starting to watch things with a better overview.
~Sheryl Crow

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
~Charles de Lint

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
~Vaclav Havel

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist’s big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that’s great.
~Damien Hirst

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.
~Taylor Swift

Being famous hasn’t changed my perception of myself – I’ve just grown up.
~Cat Deeley

~Bart van der Gaag: Changes, feat. Nicole Reynolds (3:36) umber tones, a waif in voice

~Saraph: Changes (3:39) a band’s swan song

~Billy Rogan: Changes (4:28) playing a guitar

~Bob Dylan: Times They Are A Changin‘ • feat. Rory Feek (5:01) almost 60 years later and nothing changes

~Sam Cooke: A Change is Gonna Come • feat. Jade Novah (2:19) a spirit hovering, promising

~Eric Clapton & Babyface: Change the World (3:52) promise hazy, as in a dream

~Scorpion: Wind of Change (4:42) when the wall came down

~Taylor Swift: Everything Has Changed • feat. Ed Sheerhan (4:12) something less message driven

She was reaching the limits of how much it’s possible to change a man.
~David Nicholls

You change with the guys you date.
~Jessica Simpson

Some things never change and the intriguing things you fall in love with will become the things you don’t like.
~Courteney Cox

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
~Walter Mosley

One day spent with someone you love can change everything.
~Mitch Albom

Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
~Tupac Shakur

Marriage equality changed life for people.
~Andrew Cuomo

They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.
~R Kelly

All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.
~Julie Andrews

People change and forget to tell each other.
~Lillian Hellman

If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don’t think you get the richness that’s available in a long-term relationship.
~Jeff Bridges

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
~Robert Browning

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.
~Sarah Addison Allen

You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
~Robert Brault

You can change friends but not neighbours.
~Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
~Stephen Chbosky

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
~George Bernard Shaw

Motherhood has completely changed me. It’s just about like the most completely humbling experience that I’ve ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can’t stand up to those principles when you’re raising a child, forget it.
~Diane Keaton

Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
~Matthew Broderick

Having two daughters changed my perspective on a lot of things, and I definitely have a newfound respect for women. And I think I finally became a good and real man when I had a daughter.
~Mark Wahlberg

I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
~Katey Sagal

I’ve changed my life in a lot of ways. I’m a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren’t what I care to express right now.
~Cheryl James

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
~Ronald Reagan

The moment that changed me forever was the moment my first child was born. I was happy, filled with hope, and thought, ‘Now I understand the whole point of work, of life, of love.’
~Paul Theroux

There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world.
~Christian Bale

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Cats don’t like change without their consent.
~Roger Caras

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
~Ivy Compton-Burnett

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
~Laurence J Peter

Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine.
~Robert C Gallagher

Changes in life are like extra strength Gold Bond Medicated Powder. The burning means it’s working.
~John Mayer

The only people who like change are wet babies.
~Author Unknown

It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
~Cindy Crawford

Change is tough, people don’t like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
~Christopher Bond

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
~Geoffrey Crayon

I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
~James Hillman

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
~Thomas Fuller

If you’ve ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.
~Jeff Foxworthy

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
~Timothy Zahn

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
~Pink

I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
~David Sedaris

The Marines was a fresh start – that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
~Drew Carey

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
~Will Rogers

At high tide, fish eat ants; at low tide, ants eat fish.
~Thai saying

As the sun’s shadow shifts, so there is no permanence on earth.
~Afghan saying

When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
~Chinese saying

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
~Japanese saying

An hour may destroy what an age was building.
~English saying

A year’s care; a minute’s ruin.
~Filipino saying

Any plan is bad that cannot be changed.
~Italian saying

A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
~Samoan saying

Life is like the moon: now full, now dark.
~Polish saying

When the moon is full, it begins to wane.
~Japanese saying

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
~Chinese saying

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
~Leo Tolstoy

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
~Barack Obama

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
~Mahatma Gandhi

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
~Andy Warhol

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
~Emma Goldman

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
~Eugene V Debs

The change is for a cause.
~Lailah Gifty Akita

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
~Thomas Huxley

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that’s just the way the real world is.
~Carly Fiorina

Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
~Benjamin Disraeli

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
~Emma Goldman

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
~Eleanor Clift

I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
~Victoria Woodhull

The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
~Barbara Kingsolver

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~Margaret Mead

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
~Walter Isaacson

The past is the present, and the present the future, to the non-progressive mind.
~James Lendall Basford

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
~Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.
~Jack Kemp

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what’s gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
~George Osborne

Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
~Peter Schuyler

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
~Vivienne Westwood

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
~Andre Gide

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?
~Ian Botham

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
~Michelle Obama

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
~Angela Davis

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
~Pope John Paul II

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
~Richard M Nixon

News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
~Friedrich Durrenmatt

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
~Peter Medawar

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
~Dalai Lama

You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
~Jawaharlal Nehru

A country with a history as colorful, rich and varied as any there ever was, ought to embrace it and not tear down statues.
~author unknown

Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.
~Glenn Beck

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
~Dan Quayle

We say keep your change, we’ll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
~Sarah Palin

Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
~Marco Rubio

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
~Hugo Black

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
~Daniel Berrigan

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
~Harry S Truman

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@Writers Platform

I take sounds and change them into words.
~Brian Eno

The moment of change is the only poem.
~Adrienne Rich

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
~Joel Osteen

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.
~Jose Samarago

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
~Isaac Asimov

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.
~David Brin

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
~Marcel Proust

Prewritten Prompt: change

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I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like a date on a tombstone.
~Sylvia Plath

Change there will be, as there has been throughout these… years. For he who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
~Harold Wilson

I’ll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead.
~Truman Capote

Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.
~Chuck Palahniuk

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
~Lord Acton

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~Saint Augustine

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
~Soren Kierkegaard

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
~Lao Tzu

If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
~W Somerset Maugham

I am neither religious nor superstitious, but there is something otherworldly about the space where two roads come together. The devil is said to set up shop there if you want to swap your soul for something more useful. If you believe that God can be bribed, it’s also the hallowed ground to make sacrifices. In the literal sense, it’s also a place to change direction, but once you’ve changed it, you’re stuck until you come to another crossroads, and who knows how long that will be.
~Tayari Jones

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
~Maya Angelou

To change what you get you must change who you are.
~Vernon Howard

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
~Philip Pullman

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
~Mike Murdock

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?
~Diane Duane

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
~Maxwell Maltz

If you don’t like something, change it, if you can’t change it, change your attitude.
~Maya Angelou

If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
~Charles Revson

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
~Katherine Mansfield

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
~Denis Waitley

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can’t change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr

You can avoid having ulcers by adapting to the situation: If you fall in the mud puddle, check your pockets for fish.
~Author Unknown

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
~Victor Frankl

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
~Jimmy Dean

The Exercise:

observation #25

some people have a set-aside magic
something they were born to
that changes in some way
the world around them
has nothing to do with love

by the #s

Car 54, where are you
Agent 99, pick up please
confused numbers
change of plans
anathema to science
sure-fire formula
4 romps & camp & comedies

deleted

poor wandering waif
dear homeless vagrant
I’ve an empty place
recently vacant
your change of fortune
from dire to decent
once filled with life
a love most recent
ruled pandemic rules
unjust, wrong, indecent
just joined the list
of conned decedents
cremated love
a sterile event
a devil’s feast
of bewilderment

Reinstated

I will never make you cry,
a promise
But I will never make you laugh
like he does
Ten years of marital servitude
‘ere you return to me
Exchanging thrills for a love
that cherished home

progression

changed ways change of reasons
changed attire changing seasons
change of rhythm, change in key
change of heart instructively
change of mind, smeared underwear
changed direction with room to spare

landing from altitude

changes in platitudes
changing to gratitude
vow to stop being crude
promise no more being rude
no leering no being lewd
no ogling babes
no callipygian nudes
no misbehaving
no avoiding prudes
changes in attitude
keeps me good and true
keeps me from being sued

@variance

you say it’s the clouds
he says a woman’s mind
i say it’s the unknowable
quest that changes
by the need & by the hour

5s & 7s

change is sharp elbows
eroding banks of rivers
lessons from the stars
the happenstance of meeting
the certainty of goodbye

A room scarred by life
Years of scuffing, dings and all
Change, please! posted door
You can’t send me to my room!
The Remus Con, Br’er Rabbit

mesas, table lands
sheer skylines molded like skin
to the stark landscape
precipitous perspective
change from here to way down there

catch a falling star
change New Year’s baby diapers
potty train the putz
please don’t Ֆ♯¡╦ the bed again
like the bastards two years past

her change of a dress
nice to nakedly naughty
her change of address

his change to a dress
staidly to flamboyantly
gave out his address

enigmas, unknowns
rank impossibilities
change to food for thought

fate’s come about-face
last night seemed good forever
change of day-old plans

The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

Rhetoric and dialectics can’t change what I have learned from observation and experience.
~Paul Getty

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
~J Paul Getty

We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
~Eric Butterworth

To change our realities, we also have to change our myths.
~Riane Eisler

Come what may, time and hour runs through the roughest day.
~William Shakespeare

All good things must come to an end.
~H H Riley

There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
~Denis Diderot

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
~Denise McCluggage

I like change. There’s something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful.
~David Bailey

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.
~Alice Meynell

But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
~Damien Hirst

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
~Mason Cooley

If I have to change my lifestyle, I don’t want to live.
~Robert Mapplethorpe

I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.
~Sting

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
~Arthur Schopenhauer

If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
~Doug Coupland

Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
~Jon Bon Jovi

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
~Nikos Kazantzakis

People and their rituals. They cling to things so hard sometimes.
~Garth Stein

And suddenly you know… It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of new beginnings.
~author unknown

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