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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion read more
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
Weep not that the world changes--did it keep
A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
I am not now
That which I have been.
I am not now
That which I have been.
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
It is never too late to become what you might have been. -George Eliot.
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job read more
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil read more
Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high
position.
[Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
And one by one in turn, some grand mistake
Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more
Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.
Things do not change; we change.
Things do not change; we change.