„If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!“

„If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed“

—  William H. McRaven United States admiral 1955

University of Texas at Austin 2014 Commencement Address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxBQLFLei70
Kontext: If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed... If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. And by the end of the day, that one task completed, will have turned into many tasks completed. Making your bed will also reinforce the fact that the little things in life matter. If you can't do the little things right, you'll never be able to do the big things right. And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made, that you made. And a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better.

„Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.“

—  Yanni Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer 1954

„Size seems to make many organizations slow-thinking, resistant to change and smug.“

—  Warren Buffett American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist 1930

2006 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2006ltr.pdf
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

„When you live in alignment you stop telling God how big your problems are and start telling your problems how big God is.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 131

„Instead of focusing on the world's problems, give your attention and energy to trust, love, abundance, education and peace. :-)“

—  Rhonda Byrne, kniha The Secret

Zdroj: The Secret

„“Hello, Martin. What can I do for you?”
“Got a problem.”
“A big one?”
“Female human-sized.”“

—  Charles Stross, kniha Singularity Sky

Zdroj: Singularity Sky (2003), Chapter 3, “The Spacelike Horizon” (p. 60)

„The problem with aging is not that it’s one damn thing after another—it’s every damn thing, all at once, all the time.
You can’t stop aging. Gene therapies and replacement organs and plastic surgery give it a good fight. But it catches up with you anyway. Get a new lung, and your heart blows a valve. Get a new heart, and your liver swells up to the size of an inflatable kiddie pool. Change out your liver, a stroke gives you a whack. That’s aging’s trump card; they still can’t replace brains.“

—  John Scalzi American science fiction writer 1969

Zdroj: Old Man’s War (2005), Chapter 1 (p. 14)

„If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.“

—  Katharine Hepburn film, stage, and television actress 1907 - 2003

„When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

Zdroj: Andy Warhol in His Own Words

„Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?“

—  Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States of America 1913 - 1994

Campaign speech in Michigan (1968) https://books.google.com/?id=uXRx5hGm8zYC&dq="Do+you+want+to+make+a+point+or+do+you+want+to+make+a+change"&pg=PA17
1960s

„Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.“

—  Stephen Kendrick, kniha The Love Dare

Zdroj: The Love Dare

„When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change … But only after trying their hardest to make you stop.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 159

„I am surprised at all the people in the high-tech industry focused on "making money"… If that's all they want to do, they should have a $100 printing press in their basements and they will truly "make money." Instead, if we focus all that energy on innovation, we'll change the world for the best.“

—  Philippe Kahn Entrepreneur, camera phone creator 1952

Commencement speech for UCSC students 1996 | UCSC Press Release http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/archive/95-96/06-96/061196-Graduation_ceremoni.html.

„You can live your life two ways: You can use your language to manipulate. You can use it as a tool to get what you want. But the problem with that is that it assumes you know what you want, and that you're right. And that's a problem, because there's lots of things you don't know, and if you get what you want you may find that (A.) You didn't really want it, and (B.) that you're not the person that started the journey towards that. That happens a lot to people, especially when they use their language in a manipulative way.“

—  Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962

Other

„It’s never something huge that changes the everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.“

—  Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

Zdroj: Lock and Key

„I stay focused on details
It keeps me from feeling the big things
But watch the microscope long enough
Things that seem still are still changing“

—  Ben Folds American musician 1966

"Still", Supersunnyspeedgraphic (2006).
Song lyrics, Solo

„When you're ready to make the change and you don't feel that you have the strength, know that you are connected with the same strength that moves the world; you just have to stop turning your back on it and connect with it.“

—  Steve Maraboli 1975

Zdroj: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 83

„Heathcliff, make the world stop right here. Make everything stop and stand still and never move again. Make the moors never change and you and I never change.“

—  Emily Brontë, kniha Wuthering Heights

Zdroj: Wuthering Heights

„The only permanent solution to your problems is to go inside and let go of the part of you that seems to have so many problems with reality. Once you do that, you'll be clear enough to deal with what's left.“

—  Michael Singer American landscape architect 1945

Zdroj: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself