Quotes About Refusal To Change

#1. These are the four abuses: desire to succeed in order to make oneself famous; taking credit for the labors of others; refusal to correct one's errors despite advice; refusal to change one's ideas despite warnings.

Confucius

#2. In the playoffs will beats skill.

Kevin Constantine

#3. I got written out of 'G.I. Joe' and was like, 'Welp, I'm going to go back to what I do: writing and producing comedy.'

Marlon Wayans

#4. [My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul

August Strindberg

#5. Your attitudes lie at the heart of any possibility for changing your life.

Bryant McGill

#6. The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man's refusal to seek God's way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Billy Graham

#7. The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

Jonathan Raban

#8. I hope my books make statements about our general condition.

William Golding

#9. Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

Nathaniel Branden

#10. It is not in Victory that you learn how strong you truly are.
- Stronghand

Kate Elliott

#11. What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

David Malouf

#12. I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

Don Piper

#13. The most important thing about expedition food is that there is some

Eric Shipton

#14. I think there's a secret part of me that would like to drop my entire life off a cliff and watch it break into a million pieces

Suzanne Morrison

#15. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Libba Bray

#16. A novel is the final common pathway of a writer's experiences, fears, wishes, thoughts, feelings & fantasies. All is distilled in a novel.

Mark Rubinstein

#17. Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.

Gian Carlo Menotti