Change Quotes

Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.

Waiting on the World to Change.

Almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary... expectations always travel at higher speeds.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Anytime you make someone laugh or satirize something, it's the best way to change someone's opinion because they're defenseless - they laugh, they listen.

I've done everything I can as a United States Senator to educate myself on the carbon issue and the climate change issue.

You can't change music by yourself.

This is something called "walking meditation." The goal is to learn to be aware of each and every movement and feeling. I know it seems ridiculous, but it does change the way you experience walking.

I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change. I am far lazier than that.

You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

The one significant change is in fact the second significant change

Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one cause of climate change.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

Just because something 'is' doesn't mean that it should be.

In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the dangers of climate change to Americans.

The only way change will ever happen is if we speak up, and we have to know that it actually has an impact. Because we have a lot more power than we think we do, I think.

We're all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I'm lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself.

We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.

I am arguing that climate models are not fit for the purpose of detection and attribution of climate change on decadal to multidecadal timescales.

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.

Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

A truly English protest march would see us all chanting: 'What do we want? GRADUAL CHANGE! When do we want it? IN DUE COURSE!

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

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.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

The whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going to change.

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work.

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared.

My musical tastes change every week.

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it.

If youre not living awake to the fact the life can change in a dime, then youre living asleep.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

To live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change.

You can use principles of the free market to drive social change.

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

All Prodigy music is raw, and that will never change, the production is raw, the sounds are dirty, you can't get away from that. Take it or leave it.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing cause anything can change in a script.

Civil society has not lost the possibility to influence the government and force them to change their policy. That is why we believe in your voice and your help.

I've been through so much in my life. I've seen so much. I know how fast things can change. I know someone can be here one minute and gone the next.

If I took fear out of the equation, what would I change about how I spend my days?

That's exactly what's exciting for me - the idea of infiltrating the male structure and affecting change from within.