Change Quotes

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them.

If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.

It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

We are 25 years too late. If the object is to avoid dangerous change, we've already had it. The object now is to avoid really dangerous change.

But it's a disservice to constantly put things in this radical new light - that it's going to change everything. Things don't have to change the world to be important.

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!

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.

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.

If you're unhappy, change something.

We can't think of changing our skin color. Change the world - that's how we gotta think.

it is only through a wholesome discontent with things as they are, that we ever try to make them any better.

Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

You can overcome your fears, you cange change, you can make life into what you've always wanted it to be. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon. So hang in.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call that death, but strictly speaking, death is nothing but a change of form.

I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.

Of course climate change is real.

Meditation can change the flavor of the season.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

It was chilling to realize that the sentimental qualities most valued between people, like loyalty, constancy, and affection, are the ones most likely to impede change.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

I don't think I've ever been critical of the money Douglas Adams makes, especially since, as has been tactfully pointed out, I myself have had to change banks having filled the first one up.

I have inherited a belief in community, the promise that a gathering of the spirit can both create and change culture. In the desert, change is nurtured even in stone by wind, by water, through time.

The climate change movement is a river overflowing seeping into every nook and cranny.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Your relationship with God, others, yourself, and all creation keeps changing for the better. Most of the world's religions have developed maps to describe this process.

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

Are we amateurs and not professionals? We know the lessons of history, we know the mistakes and we either act accordingly or collapse. Salvation lies in clarity and the courage to implement change

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need to recommend change, that's inevitable, it's the only reliable thing we have.

Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver?

You have to make a decision. You have to believe. Once you start doubting, you change your brain chemistry and you're done.

We are smart and powerful enough to change our world as we need.

No, nothing can change my world --Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising

I think that's what I love about glam-rock. It invited you to participate. It asked you to change yourself in all these different ways, or offered up all these options.