| Wake up all the teachers
time to teach a new way
Maybe then they'll listen to whatcha have to say
Cause they're the ones who's coming up and the world is in their
hands
when you teach the children teach 'em the very best you can.
- Harold Melvin, Peace
When you know you are listened to, everything changes.
- Conversation
What unifies a movement? After we go home from the demonstration,
are we still a movement? Only if we're grounded in a shared
vision … Having a vision means we have some fundamental
idea of how we want the world to be … A movement articulates
something for the future … It's not enough to express our
individualities. What kind of a world do you want for everybody?
And how can that world be demonstrated?
- Michael Ventura, Letters
at 3AM
Transformation comes more from pursuing profound questions
than seeking practical answers.
- Peter Block, The
Answer to How is Yes
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change
it, change your attitude.
- Maya Angelou
This is the new stuff.
- Peter Gabriel, So
Not only did we fail to imagine what the Web would become,
we still don't see it today! We are blind to the miracle it
has blossomed into. And as a result of ignoring what the Web
really is, we are likely to miss what it will grow into over
the next 10 years.
- Kevin
Kelly, Wired
The oppressed must realize that they fight not merely for freedom
from hunger, but for ... freedom to create and to construct,
to wonder and to venture.
- Paulo Freire, quoted in Original
Blessing
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
Don't play the blame game.
- Popular expression
When you say to yourself, 'That's the way I am am,' you imply
there is no possibility of change. Analysis is, in this sense,
almost always pessimistic. Focusing, by contrast, is optimistic.
It is based on the very positive expectation of change. It doesn't
envision a human being as a fixed structure whose shape can
be analyzed once and for all. It envisions a person as a process,
capable of continual change and forward movement. This 'problem'
inside you are only those parts of the process that have been
stopped and the aim of focusing is to unstop them and get the
process moving again.
- Eugene
Gendlin, Focusing
It is probably true quite generally that in the history of
human thinking the most fruitful developments frequently take
place at those points where two different lines of thought meet.
These lines may have their roots in quite different parts of
human nature, in different times or different cultural environments
or different religious traditions: hence if they actually meet,
that is, if they are at least so much related to each other
that a real interaction can take place, then one may hope that
new and interesting developments may follow.
- Werner Heisenberg
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus
El hombre propone y Dios dispone.
- Mexican proverb
These activists are quite serious in their desire to disrupt
the current economic order, but their tactics reflect a dogged
refusal to engage in classic power struggles: their goal is
not to take power for themselves but to challenge the power
centralization on principal.
- Naomi
Klein, Writing
the World on Globalization
I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
- George Carlin
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