Quotes about change from interviews: starting over, changing careers, countries and beliefs.
I changed my name because the old me died. Dylan is who I really am.
The memoir of a woman raised on an isolated survivalist Mormon family farm without school, official documents, or doctors — an account of how education becomes not just knowledge but a way of separating from one's own…
A conversational anatomy of a marriage that falls apart not from one blow but from years of accumulated things left unsaid.
Change is the only constant. We all must change or die.
A history of humankind read as a history of shared fictions that got millions of strangers to cooperate as one.
A quiet road movie about a woman who, after losing her home and her husband, chooses life on the road in a van — not as an escape but as a way to grieve and live at once.
Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans.
About why well-run market leaders, making genuinely sound decisions, repeatedly lose to weak, cheap newcomers — and why the cause of their downfall turns out to be precisely their attentiveness to today's best customers.
Linklater shot this film over twelve real years with the same actor, so the growing up on screen isn't makeup or a montage trick — it's literally elapsed time.
I went through so many experiences that I became multiple persons. It was necessary.
A neurologist's collection of clinical case studies about patients with rare disorders of perception, memory, and movement, turning medical cases into a meditation on what actually constitutes a human self.
I feel grateful for my life. I made mistakes, but I faced them and corrected them.
A research report on what separated companies that turned mediocre results into decades of outstanding performance from closely matched competitors that stayed merely good.
Innovation is what keeps music alive and relevant.
An attempt to explain why some peoples conquered others rather than the reverse — not through racial superiority but through accidents of geography: which plants, animals and diseases a continent happened to have.
Faith for me is not religion, it's belief in humanity and its ability to change.
After her father's sudden death, the author sets out to train a wild goshawk — a book about how grief can, and cannot, be tamed through a relationship with a wild animal.
History is not over. We're still writing it. Each of us is an author of the future.
A book by Intel's longtime chief on how to recognize the moment when the rules of an industry change irreversibly, and why successful companies find that moment hardest of all to notice in time.
Life is a process of becoming. You never stop evolving.
A psychiatrist tells the stories of patients and scientists who proved in practice that the adult brain can physically rewire itself in response to experience, rather than remaining fixed past a certain age.
The only boundaries are the ones we put on ourselves.
About systems and people that don't merely withstand the blows of chance but grow stronger from them, and about why robustness and antifragility are fundamentally different qualities that get confused all the time.
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
A trader-turned-philosopher's manifesto arguing that the fate of companies, markets and civilizations is set not by average trends but by rare events nobody could picture in advance — and about the habit of declaring…
The eighties were a time of change. The world was changing, and my songs changed with it.
A philosophical inquiry into the different kinds of activity that make up a human life — laboring, making things, and acting together with others — and why the modern age has come to dangerously undervalue the last and…
Game is change, it is a search for new sounds and cultures.
Music should be like water—fluid, adaptive, powerful. It flows through everything and touches every heart.
If you only know one culture, you cannot understand any culture. Only when we open ourselves to the multidimensionality of the world do we truly feel.
Painting is not dead. People say it's old-fashioned, but they don't understand that paint can do everything digital can do, and more.
I quit drinking because I realized I was wasting my time. I needed to be clear to do good work.
Restrictions don't destroy creativity, they generate it. When there is no freedom, innovation emerges.
Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.
When I started writing minimal music in the 1960s, people said it was not music. But the world changes, and what seemed strange yesterday becomes normal today.
Art can be a tool for change. Good design can inspire people to take action.
Sometimes you must destroy the old to create the new. It's the natural cycle of art.
I study the old masters, but I create for now. It's a balance between tradition and innovation.
Art can be a more powerful instrument of change than politics.
I don't invent new horrors. I take existing ones from history and rearrange them.
Race is not real, but it has real consequences.
Language is the most important thing in human communication. In Arrival, I wanted to show how language can transform us, change our very essence.
Authoritarianism is not a fantasy. It's a real threat that grows before our eyes.
The best thing about fiction is that it's truth in disguise. Reality is often stranger than any novel.
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I look at ordinary life and find the extraordinary within it.
Power over women is rooted in fear. Women who know their worth are dangerous to the system.
Space and time are not absolute containers but part of the fabric that can stretch and bend
We are the first species to change the Earth on a geological scale.
In the future, humanity will become like gods compared to our ancestors through science and technology