I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Create
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.— Walter Benjamin, Unpacking My Library
In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.
Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it-torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.
You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.
It's an ill plan that cannot be changed.
If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.
When people are least sure they are often most dogmatic.
When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.
Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.
You cannot step twice into the same river for other waters are continually flowing on.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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