How many ways can the word "change" effect our lives?

Change your mind? Earlier in the week you seemed to be opposed to change.

I change my mind with some regularity ;-)

There are as many levels of change-tolerance as there are different types of people. Professinoally, I drive change, so I’m likely to be more open to change that many. In the technology arena, it’s a given. On a personal level, I do crave some type of change in my environment on a regular basis; but if you try to change my Saturday morning routine, God help you. I’m a creature of habit, too.

There are global changes that collectively impact us all; there are cellular changes that propel us along the path of our indivdual morphings; and there are changes big and small that make us appreciate constancy and diversity. Thus spake Picante.

I once changed the lady that cuts my hair. I went to a new haircutter. The old haircutter wondered where I had been. She blew a gasket! This is the reason I changed….her attitude.

I change my mind very often when deciding what to cook for dinner. Don’t make my mind up what to make until a couple of hours before eating.
I have also used the word change quite a lot recently… hoping for a change in the weather LOLL

I work in IT and make changes to things alllllllll day and night.
Change is good.
Change can fix things.
Change can show you a new way to look at things.
Change is part of moving forward.
If something does not work for you, change!

Change your clothes
Change your attitude
Change your destiny
Change cellphone carriers
Change the color of a room
Change a lightbulb
Change for a dollar

How many others are there??

Change your tire.
Change your expression.
Change clothes.
Change your address.
Change your phone number.
Change your outlook.
Change jobs.
Change to another brand.
Change the TV or radio station.
Change a habit.

Lol…. Millions Billions of different ways “Change” affects our life…

But only 4 that matter…

Change can be good….
Change can be really good….
Change can be bad…..
Change can be really bad…..

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
~ Arthur Christopher Benson~

The reality is that changes are coming… They must come. You must share in bringing them.
~John Hersey~

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon – to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go… we must continually ask ourselves, “What will happen if…?” or better still, “How can we make it happen?”
~Lisa Taylor~

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
~Tuli Kupferberg~

It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise.
~Nancy Thayer~

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.
~Vachel Lindsay~

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~Charles Darwin~

Things do not change; we change.
~Henry David Thoreau~

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
~Carl Rogers~

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
~John F. Kennedy~

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~Henri Bergson~

What is more enthralling to the human mind than this splendid, boundless, colored mutability! – Life in the making?
~David Grayson~

If you want to change your life, change your mind.
~T.~

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~George Bernard Shaw~

Change is the watchword of progression. When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~

The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
~Preston Bradley~

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.
~Arthur Christopher Benson~

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.
~Learned Hand~

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
~Mark Twain~

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
~Anwar Sadat~

The most significant change in a person’s life is a change of attitude. Right attitudes produce right actions.
~Willam J. Johnston~

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
~Arnold Bennett~

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
~Anatole France~

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
~Charles Caleb Colton~

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow.
~Will Garcia, person with AIDS~

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
~Helen Keller~

I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back…
~Erica Jong~

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
~Reinhold Niebuhr~

(I’ve used that last one a lot… but without, so much, invoking a god.)

@cazzie

Great list, but how could you forget Melville?

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

I know just how he felt.

But… Ishmael did regret his ‘choice’ didn’t he?

Change your address,
Change your job title,
Change your bank,
Change your boxers,
Change your mind.
These are all relatively important changes for me in the last 3 weeks that has really affected my life.

Well drat. I whipped up a quick Prolog program to calculate how many ways the word “change” can effect someone’s life. But every time I run it, the answer seems to change.

Words really can’t effect my life. But I think about the only time I ever use the word change is when I’m talking about clothes or sports players. “Been 68 pitches, about time we think about changing the pitcher. Callahan, go hit the bull pen, NOW!”

@12Oaks words can’t really effect your life? How about, ‘You’re fired.’ or ‘Application declined’, or ‘Assume crash positions now’ or ‘Your insurance isn’t accepted at this hospital’, ‘Your home insurance doesn’t cover this. Didn’t you read the words in the fine print?’.

@cazzie You could make all the threats or strongest warnings ever, bu without the follow through, the words mean nothing. Say all those strong warning, but after a couple times you really do nothing but talk, you end up looking loke a foolish oaf that nobody takes seriously and will just keep on doing what they do just to make you look foolish with no real power over anything.

But if someone says to me “You’re fired,” I’d just either find another job or retire earlier than planned. “Application denied”? Will simply apply elsewhere. “Assume crash position now”? It ain’t them words that will do the damage, that’s for sure. “Your insurance isn’t accepted at this hospital”? I don’t ever have to worry about that happening. “Your home insurance doesn’t cover this, didn’t you read the fine print?”? I don’t have homeowners insurance, so no fine print to read.

@12Oaks relax. it was a joke.