Changeability Quotes

The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come. ~ Sharon Weil

Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building. ~ Glenn Murcutt

Hope is a helium balloon. It is a wish lantern set out into the dark sky of night. ~ Sharon Weil

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason
its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Every journey towards change begins with awareness. ~ Sharon Weil

I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key ... ~ Glenn Murcutt

Given that I don't know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one? ~ Sharon Weil

The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement. ~ Sharon Weil

Healing facilitates lasting change; change facilitates healing. ~ Sharon Weil

There is changeability in process, but invariance in outcome. ~ Paul Watzlawick

Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light. ~ Jerry Saltz

(In the 44th session, Seth began a list of qualities and attributes which are included in the spacious present. To date there are eleven of these: Value climate of psychological reality; energy transformation; spontaneity; durability; creation; consciousness; capacity for infinite mobility; law of infinite changeability and transmutation; cooperation; arrival and departure, meaning physical birth and death; and quality depth, the perspective in which an idea can expand, replacing our time and space.) ~ Jane Roberts

It is well known that in exchange for visionary powers, artists often suffer with extreme sensitivity and violent changeability of temperament. A philosophical crisis, or simply boredom of inactivity, could send [Holmes] spinning into a paralysed gloom from which [I] could not retrieve him. ~ Bonnie MacBird

The nature of Nature is change. ~ Sharon Weil

When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love. ~ Sharon Weil

Our greatest challenge today ... is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and by doubt I mean openness to the ongoing changeability, mystery, and fallibility of the conviction. ~ Kirk J. Schneider

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way. ~ Sharon Weil