"You change the world by being yourself."
Yoko Ono
Browsing tag: Change
"Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay."
Simone de Beauvoir
"Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."
Nikos Kazantzakis
"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
Tom Stoppard
"All of us every single year, we're a different person. I don't think we're the same person all our lives."
Steven Spielberg
I read recently about a native tribe from Canada who preform a ritual to help families bearing the loss of a loved one. They draw a circle in the ground and lay a rope through the centre of the circle. The family suffering with their grief stand at one side of the circle and the rest of the tribe stand at the other side. The mourning family praise and bemoan the departed and offer up their pain to the tribe. At some point a tug of war is enacted with the family holding onto one end of the rope as if it they could pull their
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." George Bernard Shaw
"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." Georg C. Lichtenberg
"Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts." Salman Rushdie
Recently I watched this short video about a group of photographers asked to take a portrait of a man. They were given different background information about who this man was before they met him. Each of the photographers went about applying their craft capturing the man with their story about him in their minds. The result - 6 very different photographs that in some way capture the story of the man they thought they had met. The story we have running about someone causes us to delete, distort and generalise the surrounding