Mental change Quotes

“From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.”

“Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed mysteriously; they are transformed when there is a fundamental change in ourselves.”

“Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.”

“I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I see these pictures of people in Beijing and New Delhi, walking around with masks on, because you can't walk outside your house and breathe? If you can't breathe?…If that's not the cue to make a fundamental change, I don't know what is!”

“The mind is the most important part of achieving any fitness goal. Mental change always comes before physical change.”

“We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present.”

“Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.”

“A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent and knows the remedies is a vital community, and it will have to be reckoned with. I would rather go before the government with two people who have a competent understanding of an issue, and who therefore deserve a hearing, than with two thousand who are vaguely dissatisfied.But even the most articulate public protest is not enough. We don't live in the government or in institutions or in our public utterances and acts, and the environmental crisis has its roots in our lives. By the same token, environmental health will also be rooted in our lives. That is, I take it, simply a fact, and in the light of it we can see how superficial and foolish we would be to think that we could correct what is wrong merely by tinkering with the institutional machinery. The changes that are required are fundamental changes in the way we are living.”

“Certain barriers do require a critical mass of action at the right time to overcome the inertia that is greater than incremental change.”

“The responses that environmentalists evoke - fear, anxiety, numbness, despair - are not helpful, even if they are understandable. It should be fascinating, even enthralling, to be in the milieu of environmental change.”