Quotes About Change

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• My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
• What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
• Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.
• Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don’t think it’s going to happen soon.
• I don’t want to clip on the armour every morning. I’ve seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I’m not going to change that one bit.
• I’d be happy to be taken as a woman – and that’s what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn’t going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I’d change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
• You do have to change things as warfare changes.
• Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
• Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.
• The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
• A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
• Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy.
• I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can’t write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
• It’s better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
• We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.
• Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.
• I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, ‘It’s easier to change directions while you’re still moving.’ If you stop, it’s harder to get started again. I still don’t think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.
• Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
• We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance… And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
• Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.
• There are those people who are in your corner no matter what, you can’t do any wrong, even when you do wrong. And then there are those people that no matter what you do they are going to dislike you and that’s not going to change.
• I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we’re used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we’re moving closer and closer to that tipping point.
• I’d say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say ‘matured’ but I don’t think I’d use that word in relation to my progress. I think ‘change’ is a little more accurate.
• The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
• Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
• You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn’t play that way. It’s about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
• I don’t read reviews because by then it’s too late – whatever anyone says, the book won’t change. It is written.
• And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people – not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base – is through education.
• I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
• Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.
• If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what’s crushing you.
• But I think it’s more that when you’re young, you’re invincible, you’re immortal – or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you’re inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It’s fixed. You can’t change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
• Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
• I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing ‘Famished Road,’ which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
• Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
• I don’t change. The things around me change.
• So I think it’s – what was important to me is that I found that I can’t change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don’t think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
• You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don’t balance the budget, we don’t pay them.
• There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
• Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.
• Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
• The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
• No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.
• One of the things I’ve always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it – like, not to change.
• I’m definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
• I wouldn’t change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
• Well… I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like a piece of jewelry! Instead of the silver or pewter I had gold braces. It was so much fun, I loved them. I got to change the colors and stuff and I had the rubber bands.
• If I have to change my lifestyle, I don’t want to live.
• As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious – that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
• I think I can change the game.
• Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
• I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don’t need or want anything to change that.
• Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don’t trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
• I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.
• When I’m bored or tired of being blonde, I’ll throw on a wig. It’s a lot less of a permanent way to change your look, and I have about 10 – all different colors, shapes, bobs, long hair, short, feathered.
• On the political front, of course it’s a zero-sum game. If it’s all white males holding positions, you bring 10 women in, then it’s, ‘Women are coming!’ Get 10 blacks and it’s, ‘Blacks are coming!’ ‘Hispanics are coming!’ Zero-sum game. The seatmates might change but the chairs don’t move. In the economy, the number of chairs can actually increase.
• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
• We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
• When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, ‘Oh I change too, I’m constantly becoming a better person.’
• I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men’s formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
• I’m a role model now. I didn’t know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I’ve tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don’t want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.
• Look at all the buses now that want exact change, exact change. I figure if I give them exact change, they should take me exactly where I want to go.
• I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that’s just a bone – so even if I lose weight that’s not going to change anything. That’s how I look. That’s my shape. Do the math.
• When you have a tough loss, go through it and agonize. I had one loss that I still want to change, but at the same time I realize it is an important part of who I am.
• When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There’s a momentum for change that’s very compelling.
• I moved to New York last year and I love it. It’s a huge change and I’ve always wanted to spend time there. It’s like a more intense London, and everything’s up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food’s better.
• The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it – roaming the world.
• We may need to change the way we think. As in Israel, I think there should be a mandatory draft, where you go away for the service of your country for three years.
• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the ’50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
• Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change.
• I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
• Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.
• I always get bored with my hair. That’s why I would always change it throughout my career.
• I’m not going to change the world overnight. It’s one person at a time, and hopefully they’re people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
• The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.
• One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can’t go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that’s gone to oil!
• One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that’s all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
• Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
• I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
• You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don’t give equal rights to women, you can’t progress.
• To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People’s attitudes would change. It would be a better place.
• I’m all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that’s just how it goes.
• Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn’t mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.
• I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I’ve cut that way back.
• I think if there’s any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it’s that I’ve been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what’s expected.
• You must change in order to survive.
• Too many people just eat to consume calories. Try dining for a change.
• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I’m not a very adventureous person. I don’t look for change.
• You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That’s what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don’t go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they’re not going to have that imagination.
• I don’t think we’re yet evolved to the point where we’re clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can’t really do anything meaningful.
• Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
• The politicians always told us that the Cold War stand-off could only change by way of nuclear war. None of them believed that such systemic change was possible.
• There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.
• You know, for 300 years it’s been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn’t changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?
• One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
• I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I’m angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?
• Even before he came to power in 1997, Gordon Brown promised to change the accounts to parliament from simple litanies of cash in and cash out, to a more commercial system that took notice of the public property the departments were using. This system is known as resource accounting.
• If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what’s gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
• In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
• As somebody who, in my second marriage, insisted on a prenuptial agreement, I can also testify that sometimes it is an act of love to chart the exit strategy before you enter the union, in order to make sure that not only you, but your partner as well, knows that there will be no World War III should hearts and minds, for any sad reason, change.
• Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn’t always hold.
• I don’t think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
• The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can’t change your mind, because God sure isn’t going to change His.
• News reports don’t change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.
• The experience of being in space didn’t change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
• President Obama’s version of America is a divided one – pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that.
• When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
• I’ve always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that’s what I wanted to wear everyday.
• One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
• I don’t think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I’m concerned about are at the top of other people’s agendas – not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
• Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
• I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
• Ever since the collapse of cap and trade legislation and the realization that President Obama is unlikely to ever utter the words ‘climate change’ in public again, much less use the bully pulpit to prepare the nation for the catastrophic risks of inaction, the movement has been in a funk.
• Every day I’m thinking about change.
• What’s certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba’s can’t continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
• Climate change is a global issue – from the point of view of the Earth’s climate, a molecule of CO2 emitted in Bejing is the same as a molecule emitted in Sydney.
• If you are interested enough in the climate crisis to read this post, you probably know that 2 degrees Centigrade of warming (or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) is the widely acknowledged threshold for “dangerous” climate change.
• If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
• As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn’t, so making films would change nothing.
• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
• Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it’s a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
• Geoengineering – the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth’s climate to offset global warming – is a nightmare fix for climate change.
• We have to raise the consciousness the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
• Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
• If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
• Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he’s already shifting the debate over climate change.
• There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
• You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You’re the same person. Just go.
• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
• I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
• I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
• Change is one of my favourite words.
• Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
• I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
• People lose people, we lose things in our life as we’re constantly growing and changing. That’s what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It’s what you gain from that loss that makes life.
• This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We’ve had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.
• People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
• My mom was always saying: ‘Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don’t waver. Don’t change who you are for anybody.’
• We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.
• I don’t think I’m really open to having Washington change me.
• I don’t allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.
• Some people call it global warming some people call it climate change. What is the difference?
• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
• From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
• Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.
• When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I’m older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.
• The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.
• When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they’re all about change.
• Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
• Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
• When you’re a catalyst for change, you make enemies – and I’m proud of the ones I’ve got.
• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.
• In one century, we’ve added 28 years to our average life span – a change so rapid that our brains couldn’t possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
• Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?
• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change – which lasted a couple of weeks – was based on the very simple instinct that it’s wrong to kill animals for food.
• Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
• Maybe one day the world will change, that we’ll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it’s inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn’t matter right now.
• When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that’s what Hollywood’s like. It’s a little block, little town. It doesn’t really grow or change.
• I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
• Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything – but I’m ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o’clock at night.
• I think it’s harder for people than it should be. But as more and more of us become carbon neutral and change the patterns in our lives to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem, we are now beginning to see the changes in policy that are needed.
• It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
• Some argue that now isn’t the time to push the green agenda – that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem – high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today’s financial difficulties.
• There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.
• This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see… the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
• I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I’d like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
• That’s the thing about interviews, at some point you’re going to change your mind. But it’s there forever and you can’t escape it.
• There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
• No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
• I wouldn’t change a thing – except my bank balance.
• People’s view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.
• I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
• I do believe sadly it’s going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.
• It’s important to fall in love with someone you don’t want to change.
• As far as I’m aware, everybody in the shadow cabinet accepts that there’s a compelling case on climate change and a strong scientific case.
• I believe we should reframe our response to climate change as an imperative for growth rather than merely being a way of being green or meeting environmental commitments.
• People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.
• Unless there is meaningful change in Syria and an end to the crackdown, President Assad and those around him will find themselves isolated internationally and discredited within Syria.
• Any form of art is a form of power it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
• We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.
• I have to say, you know, I’ve seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want – have their priorities change and want different things.
• Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone, but it’s making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.
• Fame changes a lot of things, but it can’t change a lightbulb.
• If we’re going to change the laws, let’s change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
• I can’t just say one time of the year I’m going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
• I do like change. That’s the one thing exciting about me.
• A zebra does not change its spots.
• It is not strange… to mistake change for progress.
• Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
• I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I’m used to.
• Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.
• We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don’t want to change anything.
• I just change with the times. I really don’t have a say in what’s going on. Music was here before me.
• Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed and external changes over which no one has control.
• It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
• A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
• Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don’t want to lose. Without time for loss, we don’t have time for soul.
• Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author’s life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
• We can’t change anything until we get some fresh ideas, until we begin to see things differently.
• Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.
• There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
• Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you’re really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
• For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
• Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.
• Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
• It’s coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It’s not just climate change it’s sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
• As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
• Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I’m never going to change that film.
• There is no question that climate change is happening the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
• When I joined Bill Clinton’s start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute’s thought to what would happen if we won. When we did – and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary – it changed my life. But it didn’t change the world.
• Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there – there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.
• The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn’t it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.
• Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, ‘Hey, women already rule my life.’ But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.
• Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn’t know.
• Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
• People find themselves in ruts all the time. You’re in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you’re OK with it, there’s nothing wrong with that. But if you’ve got unease, then you’ve got to make a change.
• It’s quite nice to see that I didn’t have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
• Man can certainly flee from God… but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
• I like change. There’s something Buddhist about it – continuous change is wonderful.
• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don’t change diapers in midstream.
• Cats don’t like change without their consent.
• I love change, I need it.
• One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes… but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes – and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.
• Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.
• I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
• Even God cannot change the past.
• Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
• A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn’t do if it didn’t have rabies. But that doesn’t change the fact that it has rabies.
• If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes, I see what you mean but, really, it’s jewels that change an outfit.
• I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
• We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity.
• Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
• Close elections tend to break toward the challenger because undecided voters – having held out so long against the incumbent – are by nature looking for change.
• Climate change was a point of division between Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney. The president declared climate change a global threat, acknowledged that the actions of humanity were deepening the crisis, and pledged to do something about it if elected.
• The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left.
• The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is – a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
• I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
• I’m a typical middle child. I’m the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody’s happy. It’s hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.
• We’re living in an era of unprecedented change, and I want to be a part of documenting it.
• In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
• Unless it’s a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
• If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?
• The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
• I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.
• I didn’t think that college math was for me. I didn’t think I’d be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
• Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
• Comedians walk out, get a feel for the crowd. If it’s not going good, we change directions. If we got to drag your momma into this thing, we will. Whatever we got to do.
• As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
• Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
• It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It’s not the body-the body will change.
• I have found there are four steps to change. 1. You must want it. 2. You must believe it. 3. You must live it. 4. You will become it.
• The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
• Set lists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the set list at the drop of a hat.
• I’m trying to change the culture in New York City that’s hard enough!
• Whether you’re winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can’t change because of the circumstances around you.
• If we don’t like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
• Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
• I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it’s essential to do so.
• Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
• Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we’re slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we’re not told growing up, and it’s our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
• I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
• I just like food too much, and I don’t want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it… I don’t want to look like Britney Spears, I just don’t want to. She’s hideous.
• There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion they’re not afraid of it.
• You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same… but they know. They all have an individual personality, and those personalities change from day to day. They can have their grumpy days and their happy days and their serene days. But it’s unpredictable. You can’t be off in outer space when you’re dealing with animals.
• Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.
• One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.
• I just don’t believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
• I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
• People with high blood pressure, diabetes – those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
• It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
• Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
• If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
• If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
• I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they’re active, informed, and engaged.
• You change with the guys you date.
• I don’t think my principles change. I think the way in which you apply those principles to modern society changes.
• I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I’m basically the same person I was when I won ‘Idol,’ or when I was 10.
• Some people seem to understand this – that life and change take time – but I am not one of those people.
• Maybe we all change over time.
• I absolutely don’t care about my looks and I’m so used to them that I wouldn’t change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.
• Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people’s desire for change.
• I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
• When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
• It’s been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you’ll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It’s cool, it’s actually really neat.
• I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
• No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I’ve done very few of those. I’ve got a feeling it’s going to change things for me.
• The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of syphilis. It is my great regret that we didn’t change the name of our country.
• Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
• Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
• All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.
• Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
• Your race and gender don’t change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
• The challenge is not to replace Obama but with who. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform, if we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country.
• I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it’s not working, I change the position.
• If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
• All cities do face similar, significant trends in the future… most importantly global warming and climate change.
• I like progress but I hate change.
• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
• I’ve had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that’s OK with me. I don’t feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
• One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
• The biggest danger to the European Union comes not from those who advocate change, but from those who denounce new thinking as heresy. In its long history Europe has experience of heretics who turned out to have a point.
• We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel. And because of this sensibility, we come to the European Union with a frame of mind that is more practical than emotional.
• I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.
• Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
• Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There’ll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
• Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth’s treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
• That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.
• One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
• A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.
• We’re not trying to change the world just music.
• I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.
• You put high heels on and you change.
• One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
• Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
• Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.
• Don’t manage – lead change before you have to.
• I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
• To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
• I have to struggle to change people’s perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I’m this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I’m absolutely not like that at all. I think I’m much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
• It took me so many years to move out. I’m definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
• I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.
• Rather than saying, ‘My checking account is a wreck,’ change it to ‘I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.’
• Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.
• We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
• Anyone who’s lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change – as anyone would change.
• Sometimes I have these fantasies of just moving to a foreign country and coming back with a full head of hair. Or not even come back! Make a new life there with hair… Change my name, just see what happens.
• Obviously comedic styles do change.
• The only change I can really see is that I don’t have to shop for pants in stores anymore.
• I love street style, seeing how girls wear pieces and how their pair accessories with their outfit. How they pair shoes with a bag and go to day to night and change things up.
• Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
• I don’t have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.
• Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
• The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.
• I wouldn’t change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
• Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
• When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.
• I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality.
• The ’80s made up for all the abuse I took during the ’70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
• I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America’s most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit – audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
• We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we’re being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We’ve been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn’t. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It’s the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.
• I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist’s big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that’s great.
• And it’s absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that I’ve seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don’t we have that here?
• With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.
• Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.
• When people align around shared political, social, economic or environmental values, and take collective action, thinking and behavior that compromises the lives of millions of people around the world can truly change.
• An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.
• When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that’s just the way the real world is.
• Before ‘Schindler’s List,’ I wouldn’t have believed movies had a lot of power for social change.
• It is time for corporate America to become ‘the third pillar’ of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
• The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.
• The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking?
• What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.
• Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.
• I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
• It’s best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
• I love to watch times change!
• I didn’t want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
• Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.
• Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, ‘Things don’t look like that!’
• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.
• The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
• I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after they’ve ceased to be of any use to either of you. I’m always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit.
• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won’t answer the door.
• Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas.
• My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
• Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not… We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
• I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me.
• I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.
• The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
• Well, what was called the blessed hope of the Bible is that one day Jesus Christ would come back again, start a whole new era, that this world order that we know it would change into something that would be wonderful that we’d call the millennium.
• The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this – a movie star will say, ‘How can I change the script to suit me?’ and a movie actor will say. ‘How can I change me to suit the script?’
• Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people’s ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
• I’m very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There’s nothing I want to change. I’m pretty happy with what I’ve got.
• It’s a huge change for your body. You don’t even want to look in the mirror after you’ve had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
• Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
• I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that’s not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
• I don’t think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.
• I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it’s not good for me.
• Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
• Hope and Change has become Divide and Conquer.
• I think having a child can really change you if you’re open to it.
• I take sounds and change them into words.
• There’s no sense in going to a tournament if you don’t believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
• If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.
• If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’s probably shipping out for ‘Transformers.’ If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, ‘Transformers’ or Lars von Trier, he’d probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.
• I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it’s in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It’s about oneness.
• Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.
• In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
• As you grow older, you change.
• We don’t change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
• It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
• I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.
• I can’t change overnight into a serious literary author. You can’t compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
• If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
• Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
• I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
• For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
• Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
• I’ve always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
• I love what I do, and when I don’t love what I do, I’ll make a change.
• The new dynamics between brands and consumers, driven by social media, are proving to be a powerful impetus for change.
• If you’ve ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.
• This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
• We should be proud that our Prophet came into the world with the message of Islam to change it for the better, and not for the worse, or to keep things as they are.
• Being ready isn’t enough you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
• As I have said for many years throughout this land, we’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.
• Don’t fear change – embrace it.
• Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
• I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn’t mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they’re happy if they do get it.
• It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.
• If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone’s day.
• The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn’t want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.
• Thoughts will change and shift just like the wind and the water when you’re on the boat thoughts are no different than anything else.
• The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
• An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.
• I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you’re not going to change each other’s minds. It’s a waste of your time and my time.
• If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
• Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
• I am Jose Mourinho and I don’t change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
• We’re a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
• One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don’t think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
• For me, ‘revolution’ simply means radical change.
• Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
• A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
• It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
• Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.
• It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
• We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
• Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.
• Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.
• A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
• I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.
• Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
• Hope and change? We’re not doing that anymore. They’re doing attack and blame. And so, I just think people are going to see through this. They want real leadership. They want us to get this country on the right track.
• I wouldn’t change anything. I’ve made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I’ve learned.
• Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.
• The question, I’ve come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.
• When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not.
• It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
• Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we’ll begin to change things.
• If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don’t think you get the richness that’s available in a long-term relationship.
• I don’t know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
• I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
• I got all the respect in the world for the front-runners in this race, but ask yourself: If we replace a Democratic insider with a Republican insider, you think we’re really going to change Washington, D.C.? You don’t have to settle for Washington and Wall Street insiders who supported the Wall Street bailout and the Obamacare individual mandate.
• I don’t like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can’t really ask for more than.
• Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
• Under Barack Obama, the only ‘Change’ is that ‘Hope’ has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they’re worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.
• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.
• I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change – within himself, not on the outside.
• So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn’t change my mind, because it’s football, it’s normal. What is not normal is that we haven’t been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we’ve been playing in the last few weeks.
• A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
• So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
• No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
• The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
• Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won’t have anything to complain about.
• Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
• I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.
• A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.
• I may be a living legend, but that sure don’t help when I’ve got to change a flat tire.
• I don’t have perfect teeth, I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.
• The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
• Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that’s a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
• I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
• It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
• Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.
• Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
• I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
• If you never change your mind, why have one?
• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
• Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
• Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country.
• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
• The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
• They say marriage will change you but it didn’t change me. Being in love changed me.
• It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
• I’ve seen firsthand that being president doesn’t change who you are. It reveals who you are.
• Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it’s not quite the same thing.
• If you don’t change, then what’s the point of anything happening to you?
• I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
• People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.
• Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
• I don’t care what other people think as long as I am happy. The day I die or retire, I have blown all my chances because I don’t have the chance any more to change my image as an F1 driver.
• There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
• Political Correctness doesn’t change us, it shuts us up.
• I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there’s nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There’s a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
• I told you I’m not going to criticize my successor. I’ll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don’t believe that persuasion isn’t going to work. Therapy isn’t going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
• It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but… it is flattering and of course challenging.
• For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.
• No, I don’t regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don’t regret anything.
• Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy – but that could change.
• All is connected… no one thing can change by itself.
• You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.
• Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
• As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
• When you are young and healthy, it never occurs to you that in a single second your whole life could change.
• I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
• There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
• Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
• I know that my race must change.
• The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
• Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role… I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘We want to remake ‘The Jerk’ with so and so.’ And I say, ‘Fine.’ It just doesn’t bother me. It’s an honor actually.
• As a kid I had buck teeth and braces and acne. I hated what I saw. I’m still not comfortable, but that’s why I change and adapt the way I look.
• It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
• I don’t believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it’s really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.
• You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.
• Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.
• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
• We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
• People don’t change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
• Habits change into character.
• Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
• It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
• Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
• The most useless are those who never change through the years.
• Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn’t mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense – the idea that anyone can make it.
• Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
• I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you’ve lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn’t mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you’ve forgotten high school.
• I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
• We first fought… in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
• We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
• Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.
• In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
• While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
• We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.
• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
• Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
• In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We’ve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
• Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
• If people don’t like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that’s too bad. I don’t want to change to be something that I’m not for other people to like me.
• Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.
• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
• We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
• You can change friends but not neighbours.
• Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.
• People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
• There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
• But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
• People are starting to go on about my weight but I’m not going to change my size because they don’t like the way I look.
• I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that’s beautiful.
• You don’t have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life’s about change.
• You know, I don’t really do that much looking inside me when I’m working on a project. Whatever I am becomes what that film is. But I change you change.
• Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
• I’m a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
• Ignorance is always afraid of change.
• Ah! how annoying that the law doesn’t allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.
• Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
• Negroes – Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day – They change their mind.
• My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.
• Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
• I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
• To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It’s like makeup. It’s the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
• Some people change when they think they’re a star or something.
• Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
• We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.
• As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions.
• Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.
• As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
• The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
• As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
• The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
• We teach people that they upset themselves. We can’t change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
• I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
• Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
• Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can’t find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here’s the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
• Exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it’s not change, it’s partisanship. We don’t need partisanship. We don’t need demagoguery, we need solutions.
• I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
• All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
• There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change – or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is – certainly is one of them. But it’s low on my list.
• Satire doesn’t effect change.
• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new – and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
• I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
• In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn’t change policy.
• To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
• In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
• Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
• Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
• Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
• There’s no reason to change what you are, but if you’re not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
• I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.
• You don’t change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
• Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
• And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
• Logic will never change emotion or perception.
• Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.
• People can cry much easier than they can change.
• The Roman Catholic Church isn’t going to change its theologies.
• 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.
• All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
• What looks absolutely fabulous in rehearsal can fall flat in front of an audience. The audience dictates what you do or don’t change.
• Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
• My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.
• Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn’t blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won’t cheat, then you know he never will.
• The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.
• Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
• If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don’t know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
• Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.
• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
• That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
• If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
• A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
• Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
• Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it’s the only way they can get anything really finished.
• The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
• A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
• I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
• You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
• The ‘self-image’ is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
• If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
• It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
• As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
• Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
• Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
• Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
• I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
• Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you’ve got.
• It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
• I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
• On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
• Dynamism is a function of change.
• I’m one of those people who thinks that changing one’s hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.
• Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting – it’s kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
• In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
• Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
• Each child is an adventure into a better life – an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
• People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
• Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
• He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
• No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
• It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
• I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to change the form in which we live.
• Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
• Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
• The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
• Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
• Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
• Taste may change, but inclination never.
• Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
• If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
• Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
• Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
• The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
• Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.
• Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
• Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
• This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We’ve got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We’re going to change that in November.
• Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.
• There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
• It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
• I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.
• Don’t knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
• Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
• God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
• Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
• We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.
• The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
• Of course, there is no question that Libya – and the world – will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.
• The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
• Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.
• Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
• If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
• If a person doesn’t change, there’s something really wrong with him.
• I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
• For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.
• I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.
• Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel’s under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
• Change yourself and your work will seem different.
• No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
• That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.
• We say keep your change, we’ll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
• Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
• I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
• Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
• If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
• In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
• I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
• The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
• One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.
• People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.
• The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
• What I learned in jail is that I can’t change. I can’t live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
• The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
• The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
• Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
• Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
• In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
• Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
• A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
• The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
• I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
• People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.
• But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
• The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them they change and everyone looks up to them.
• Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
• Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
• I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
• No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
• You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
• I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
• I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it.
• There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
• Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
• Things don’t have to change the world to be important.
• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
• If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.
• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
• For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
• I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
• Chinese people themselves, they really want change.
• It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
• The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
• There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
• You change your life by changing your heart.
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
• Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
• People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
• Weep not that the world changes – did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.
• I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
• Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.
• I try to contrast life today is full of contrast… We have to change.
• As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
• Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
• We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
• If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that’s got to be good, hasn’t it?
• The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
• Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
• Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
• The more things change, the more they are the same.
• If you feel like it’s difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
• What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
• Change is such hard work.
• I don’t know if you can change things, but it’s a drop in the ocean.
• To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.
• True change takes place in the imagination.
• When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.
• Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
• The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
• The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
• A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change.
• All things must change to something new, to something strange.
• Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
• Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.
• To change what you get you must change who you are.
• Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
• We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
• Anyone who thinks there’s safety in numbers hasn’t looked at the stock market pages.
• Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?
• You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
• In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.
• Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
• Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
• Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.
• Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
• Change brings opportunity.
• For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.
• I can’t really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don’t see why I should.
• Change in all things is sweet.
• Don’t change on me. Don’t extort me unless you intend to do it forever.
• Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
• Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
• A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
• Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
• Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change – this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
• I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.
• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
• Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.
• There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.
• Not only is women’s work never done, the definition keeps changing.
• Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
• One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
• When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change… you will change.
• Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
• Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.
• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
• Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
• Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change where we are right, make us easy to live with.
• One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
• Change may be alarming, but it is also refreshing – even exhilarating.
• The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
• The past is the present, and the present the future, to the non-progressive mind.
• I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
• All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
• Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
• Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes.
• If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.
• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
• Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
• Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
• Everything will be alright does not mean everything will stay the same.
• The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.
• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.
• The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
• If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
• All of us, every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives.
• Your past does not equal your future.
• All is flux; nothing stays still.
• All things change; nothing perishes.
• Think progress, not perfection.
• The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
• If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
• Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
• For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.
• Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
• Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
• Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
• Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
• No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.
• In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten… Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.
• The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
• After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
• When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
• What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride ” nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
• To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
• If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
• All great changes are preceded by chaos.
• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
• I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.
• Things do not change; we change.
• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
• The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
• If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.
• You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.
• Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
• Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
• I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
• As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
• I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
• Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
• If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
• Let him that would move the world first move himself.
• Love change, fear staying the same.
• Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
• Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
• Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.
• Nothing happens unless something is moved.
• When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
• The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surrounding.
• Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation.
• The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
• If I am an advocate for anything, it is to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.
• The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
• In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
• The larger the change, the more people will resist it. Thus, make it seem so tiny and trivial that people don’t even realize it.
• The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
• One area in which human nature will never change: People will congregate around a single strong personality like planets orbiting a sun.
• Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
• The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
• He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
• Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
• You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
• LAW #45: Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once.
• Be ruthless on yourself; do not repeat the same tired methods.
• Can you take criticism and use it constructively?
• The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.
• One of the happiest moments ever is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.
• Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
• Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.
• Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.
• Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
• Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
• It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
• We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
• Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.
• To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time.
• Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies.
• See yourself as a cheetah: your speed is important but changing direction fast even more.
• Make the first step and you’ll be closer than you were.
• Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
• Step with care and great tact, and remember that life’s a great balancing act.
• You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
• What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.
• Society, community, family are all conserving institutions. They try to maintain stability, and to prevent, or at least to slow down, change. But the organization of the post-capitalist society of organizations is a destabilizer. Because its function is to put knowledge to work – on tools, processes, and products; on work; on knowledge itself – it must be organized for constant change.
• New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models ” surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works ” promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.
• We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
• Will you look back on life and say, I wish I had,x9d or I’m glad I didx9d?
• Growth is the only evidence of life.
• If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
• Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now.
• If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along and you’ll start happening too.
• The more you love, the more you risk. The more you risk, the more you experience. The more your experience, the more your learn. The more your learn, the more you grow. The more you grow, the more you’re living.
• If you don’t look back at yourself and think, Wow, how stupid I was a year ago,x9d then you must not have learned much in the last year.
• Just for the record darling, not all positive change feels positive in the beginning.
• It must happen to us all… We pack up what we’ve learned so far and leave the familiar behind. No fun, that shearing separation, but somewhere within, we must dimly know that saying goodbye to safety brings the only security we’ll ever know.
• Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.
• The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
• Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
• Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
• The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.
• People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
• If change is forced upon you, you must resist the temptation to overreact or feel sorry for yourself.
• Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
• It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really, brave.
• When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
• When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
• Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family.
• My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.
• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
• You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.
• To say goodbye is to die a little.
• Change, like healing, takes time.
• If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
• Love evolves. It starts like a wild fire and finishes like embers.
• We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.
• Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
• Don’t change yourself so that other people will like you. Be yourself so that the right people will love you.
• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
• There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
• Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.
• Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
• You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.
• Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around.
• Never a failure, always a lesson.
• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher, can change the world.
• So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!
• If you want a peaceful world, be peaceful yourself. If you want a generous world, be generous yourself. All macro changes start by micro changes.
• No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
• Each of us can make a difference, and all of us ought to try.
• Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
• The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
• If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it You just do it one step at a time.
• Let your smile change the world but never let the world change your smile.
• Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.
• The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
• As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
• There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
• 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.
• At the end of the day, it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about what you’ve done with those accomplishments. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.
• You change the world by being yourself.
• Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
• Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
• People do not change, they are merely revealed.
• There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
• If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.
• If we want to change the world, we change ourselves.
• Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.
• The best way to protect yourself is to be as fluid and formless as water; never bet on stability or lasting order. Everything changes.
• It is the hard days, the times that challenge you to your very core, that determine who you are.
• Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
• So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
• If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
• It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear.
• I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back…
• It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
• Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
• You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
• The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
• You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on within you.
• I will not carry a thing to its culmination simply because I entered in. I may have said I wanted it, but I will have the courage to say, I have changed my mind.
• It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage…. You just have to put your ego on a shelf and tell it to be quiet.
• Life is very tough. If you don’t laugh, it’s tough.
• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
• You were born with the ability to change someone’s life – don’t ever waste it.
• One smile, can start a friendship. One word, can end a fight. One look, can save a relationship. One person can change your whole life.
• Your mind is a powerful things. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.
• If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
• Stop being who you were and become who you are.
• Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
• 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 another.
• If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
• Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.
• It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
• Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice.
• We become what we habitually contemplate.
• You don’t have to hold yourself hostage to who you used to be.
• If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
• I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.
• You will never know yourself completely. You are life. You are ever changing. And that’s fine. Just keep going.
• The most beautiful and profound way to change yourself is to accept yourself completely, as imperfect as you are.
• What you must do now is to adapt fast. The world belongs to those who can change fast.
• What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
• Be the change you want to see happen rather than trying to change anyone else.
• What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
• The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
• People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.
• Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence.
• All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
• Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
• I see my life as an unfolding set of opportunities to awaken.
• Accept who you are but be willing the change for the better.
• Life is changing all the time and if we fail to change with it we get left behind.
• Change is never a matter of ability, it’s always a matter of motivation.
• I have come to accept life as a process, and am satisfied that in my ever-going process, I am constantly discovering, expanding, finding the cause of my ignorance, in martial art and especially in life. In short, to be real…
• To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
• You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
• The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
• You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret… is to press play.
• Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don’t want to believe that. But if you’re over age twenty-one, your life is what you’re making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.
• Do not be afraid of change or chaos. Embrace it by being as fluid as possible.
• Your days are numbered. Will you pass them half awake and halfhearted or will you live with a sense of urgency?
• The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing. It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
• Every beginning is a consequence ” every beginning ends some thing.
• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
• If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
• The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
• A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.
• You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
• If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
• Amateurs see change coming and become scared. Geniuses seek change and arrive at flow the closer they get to truth.
• Personal transformation is not a group affair. It’s a single player game. Groups are where everything significant becomes confounded and gets lost amid promiscuous non seriousness. Only the individual can sustain the purity, focus and prolonged intensity needed for radical change.
• Understanding is the foundation of lasting change. Change that comes from discipline is not organic. It is repression. It doesn’t get rid of the underlying issue. Change that comes from understanding is effortless. When you understand the harm of a habit it drops spontaneously.
• Thinking is by far the most underrated activity. People consider it unproductivex9d to sit on a bench and think. So they spend their lives doing things they never thought through. An hour of clear thinking, can yield a conclusion that changes your life.
• You have to know who you are to grow your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.
• When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
• The 3 C’s in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the Choice, to take the Chance, if you want anything in life to Change.
• Don’t be afraid to change. You may lose something good, but you may gain something even better.
• Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series… The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism.
• You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
• Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
• The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
• Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.
• Change is inevitable ” except from a vending machine.
• You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
• Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
• If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.
• Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.
• It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
• The more you adapt, the more interesting you are.
• We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
• You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.
• You always have the choice between comfort and discomfort, mediocrity and growth, fitting in and standing out.
• To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self.
• To change is to think greater than your environment.
• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
• Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
• People don’t change. Only their costumes do.
• Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.
• The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
• On the precipice of any great change, we can see with terrifying clarity the familiar firm footing we stand to lose, but we fill the abyss of the unfamiliar before us with dread at the potential loss rather than jubilation over the potential gain of gladnesses and gratifications we fail to envision because we haven’t yet experienced them.
• We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.
• Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover.
• Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
• I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.
• We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
• For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.
• There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing.
• We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you.
• I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view.
• I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.
• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
• Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
• Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decisions that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.
• Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.
• Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.
• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
• The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
• Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life.
• Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.
• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.
• Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
• When you are through changing, you are through.
• The world is always in movement.
• The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
• Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
• Change always comes bearing gifts.
• Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay.
• Our only security is our ability to change.
• Don’t wait for the right opportunity, create it.
• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
• We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
• We made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over.
• If you want peace, be above your desires. If you want meaning, change something important to you.
• If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.
• You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!
• You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
• Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
• We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
• The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.
• That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.
• People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.
• Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
• Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.
• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
• All good things must come to an end.
• Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
• Change your thinking, change your life.
• In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
• Enter new waters.
• Life is a progress, and not a station.
• The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
• Every new day is another chance to change your life.
• People change. Memories don’t.
• The only way out is through.
• Old ways won’t open new doors.
• One small positive thought can change your whole day.
• When life changes to be harder, change yourself to be stronger.
• Pain makes people change.
• People change and forget to tell each other.