Quotes by Small Changes Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. Barbara Kingsolver small-changes endurance wonder If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country’s oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week. That's not gallons, but barrels. Small changes in buying habits can make big differences. Becoming a less energy-dependent nation may just need to start with a good breakfast. Barbara Kingsolver small-changes oil country It's the fact that no matter how bad it's gotten, the body wants to be healthy. The body wants to bounce back. When you do these changes, you do these small changes every single day, and you trust the process of what you're doing. You really do make lasting changes onto your body. Bob Harper small-changes lasting-change healthy One of the things that's kind of persistent is that I am the model on the cover of Tom Waits' album, Small Change. Cassandra Peterson small-changes albums waiting That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society. Charles Dickens small-changes society two I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced. Cynthia Kauffman small-changes reform thinking Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. Dean Koontz small-changes storm world The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others. Duane Elgin small-changes environmental character In my opinion, neither organisms nor organizations evolve slowly and surely into something better, but drift until some small change occurs which has immediate and overwhelming significance. The special role of the human being is not to wait for these favorable accidents but deliberately to introduce the small change that will have great significance. Edwin Land small-changes organization waiting Speech is the small change of silence. George Meredith small-changes silence funny A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud. George Santayana small-changes currency hype People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes. Hoda Kotb small-changes school thinking Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow. Jane Jacobs small-changes wealth cities Donald Trump business connections, which are really horrifying. I mean, they make Hillary Clinton look like small change when it comes to influence peddlin and really engaging the most nefarious forces around the world. Jill Stein small-changes connections mean Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes. John Irving small-changes revision half A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. Jonathan Ive design-process small-changes different little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime. Julia McNair Wright small-changes life-changing littles Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. Lord Byron small-changes love people The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference. Malcolm Gladwell small-changes epidemics differences If a problem looks difficult, relax. If it looks impossible, relax even more. Then begin encouraging small changes, putting just enough pressure on yourself to move one turtle step forward. Then rest, savor, celebrate. Then step again. You’ll find that slow is fast, gentle is powerful, and stillness moves mountains. Martha Beck small-changes powerful moving 12»