Shifting Paradigms Quotes

Women are in a position now to voice their opinion... women are getting empowered. The more power they get, the more voice they get to shift certain things around. Now I have a daughter, I understand. When I didn't have a daughter, I didn't understand.

One can describe the world of today to the people of today only if one describes it as capable of alteration.

Life's about changing. Nothing ever stays the same.

Books are, at their heart, dangerous. Yes, dangerous. Because they challenge us: our prejudices, our blind spots. They open us to new ideas, new ways of seeing. They make us hurt in all the right ways. They can push down the barricades of ‘them’ & widen the circle of ‘us.

Reality isn't what it used to be.

A given order may at any given time fail to represent those values, even work against those values. I think that's the dynamic we're seeing today.

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Nowadays, we have to break the molds to what it means to be a model in 2016.

Literature may make the reader reexamine some of his or her own conventions, look at himself or herself in a different way, look at others in a different way. This goes way beyond just making statements or manifesting principles.

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'.

This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.