"Things remain the same because it is impossible to change very much without changing most of everything."

-- Ted Sizer

#Change Quotes #Impossible Quotes #Things Change Quotes

“Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.”
“Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“If Im feeling outraged, grief, disbelief, frustration, sympathy, that gets channeled through me and into my pictures and hopefully transmitted to the viewer.”
“Researchers studied 34 students at the University of Virginia, taking them to the base of a steep hill and fitting them with a weighted backpack. They were then asked to estimate the steepness of the hill. Some participants stood next to friends during the exercise, while others were alone. The students who stood with friends gave lower estimates of the steepness of the hill. And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared.”
“To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.”
“Of course, you would have to be insane to hope your child grows up to be a playwright or poet. Given the odds, you would have to be quite cavalier about your children's future.”
“What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibi lity of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...”

Source : "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.
“To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.”

Source : Greg Bear (2014). “The Venging: Stories”, p.189, Open Road Media

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