Sam Levenson Quotes

Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it.

Stirring is OK. It just depends what happens in the end.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Reform is not a one-night stand.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Change isn't easy, it takes time.

It takes a long time to bring about change.

It’s time for change. It’s time for someone smart enough to know, strong enough to do, sure enough to lead...

All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know?

We cannot change absolutely everything in one season.

Change always takes time.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

Change won't happen overnight.

The Chinese five-spice works really well in the quantity that I used. It makes it almost imperceptibly just a little bit sweeter without making it really sweet or really even that Asian flavored.

If you want something different, you are going to have to do something different.

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

Good things don't come to those who wait. They come to those who agitate!