Carolyn Wells Quotes

Different times require different types of men.

The strength of any plan depends on the time. Circumstances and things eternally shift and change.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

There is no such thing as a hopeless situation. Every single circumstances of your life can change!

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.

In terms of work, I'm doing exactly the same as I've always done. It's what's around me that's changed.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Part of our human nature is finding new ways of being.

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

Being a game changer to me means changing the way other people see things.

Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their appearance. Thus, it is essential to recognize that we can never know more than one side, one small aspect of a mountain.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.

Every hundred feet the world changes

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.

Keep an open mind and be ready to change and adapt to the situation. Don't ask reality to conform to your blueprint, but transform your blueprint to adapt to reality.

It's only now that I realize that behaviour always has a context and precedents, it's what you do rather than what you are, although we often never recognise that context or understand what these precedents are.

A flip-flopper is an intelligent person who changes position when the circumstance changes.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.