Change Quotes

I am convinced that great ideas that are powerfully presented can change a mind in five minutes.

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

We cannot change our rulers, but we can change the way they rule us.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.

One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.

You cannot be driven by the polls. The polls change all the time; they're easily manipulated by whoever wants to ask those poll questions; they go up; they go down.

I've worked for four presidents and watched two others up close, and I know that there's no such thing as a routine day in the Oval Office.

The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

We don't have good leadership. We don't have the right people. Everything's politically correct. We have a country that's lost its way. It's going to change.

The European nations take climate change very seriously.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

It takes me six months to do a story. I think it out and then write it sentence by sentence - no first draft. I can't write five words but that I change seven.

To change a team you must change their comfort zone.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over

I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

We should not accept an evil we can change.

If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

I would die at the stake rather than change a semi-colon!

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.

The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

The responsibility of the writer is to be a sort of demonic social critic -- to present the world and people in it as he sees it and say, "Do you like it? If you don't like it, change it.

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

It's indeed surprising that replacing the elementary particle with a string leads to such a big change in things. I'm tempted to say that it has to do with the fuzziness it introduces.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!

Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.

It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism.

People may come and go,lives may change in a instant,but love and friendship will last forever.

Change is the watchword of progression.

If we do not share our stories and shine a light on inequities, things will not change.

A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change.

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 she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?