Change Quotes

Change is an illusion because we're always at the place where any future can take us.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year, but each time new fruit, all lastingly valuable ideas in thinking must always be reborn.

You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last-far off-at last, to all, And every winter change to spring.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Greenhouse gas emissions and global warming are among humanity's most pressing concerns. Societal expectations on climate change are real, and our industry is expected to take a leadership role.

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar.

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.

...you can make little choices that can change the world to be a better, happier, lovelier place every day

There can come a time when change is so cataclysmic that it changes the fundamentals of how we do our politics.

Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Whenever I look at me, all i see are things I'd like to change. Whenever Damon looks at me, all he sees is a glorious gift from the universe somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

I really wanted to do research. That has never changed.

It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

youth is always sure that change must mean something better.

True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.

[from a reader] I hope she learns to look for the joy in life instead of picking out negatives - it will change her life for the better.

I'm communicating with the directors of the Soviet companies, and I see that it is wrong, but when I go to the official discussions, they discuss we should change the color of the walls.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

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.

Change your life. If you want to get better, that is what you have to do.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.

I'm a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet.

I believe that when people experience an event as a community it can transcend and change people's lives.

Blame is a change-avoidance strategy.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

There needs to be a shift in consciousness; there needs to be an absolute wake-up call before society can actually make the kind of incredibly significant changes that need to happen.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

Be what you are. Don't change yourself for anything. God made you that way for a reason.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

A brave world, sir, full of religion, knavery, and change: we shall shortly see better days.

Lasting social change unfolds from inside out: from the inner to the outer being, from inner to outer realities.

I always wanted to get into rock music so I could cover up my real personality, change my voice, and create a false self to hide behind.

All communication must lead to change

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.