Change Quotes

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

Every day I'm thinking about change.

I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

"Mansome" was one of those projects where it was a great change to do something fun and look at the subject in an engaging way. My next film is not going to be about pedicures.

War on nations changes maps. War on poverty maps change.

We cannot change the Koran or make no modifications, this cannot be done, or it would no longer be holy.

Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

More women speaking up and seizing the helm of power can create its own momentum. It can change the culture that helps perpetuate those external forces.

Change happens when people actively participate; lip service is what happens when people don't.

One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

What to do about climate change is political, it's social, and it's moral, which is one of the reasons the scientific community reached out to the Pope, to ask for his involvement in this issue.

Passions change, politics are immutable.

Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

The fact that so many are willing to accept need-based aid signals a fundamental change in the American character.

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

Maybe the science is uncertain, maybe we don't have to worry about it. Climate change is the worst, but there's others.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.

Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.

A clean mind always delivers power.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

I think jazz is actually quite unforgiving in its disdain for nostalgia. It demands creativity and change at its highest level.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

If your relationship with someone is based on your desire for them to change into something radically different, there's no real closeness there, no real communication.

...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.

However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.

Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.

I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change.

I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.

Business is society's change agent.

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

People who achieve access to the deepest roots of their freedom can completely change.

Given that we are passing the climate change bill, which is based on the supposition that the climate is getting warmer, let me point out that it is now snowing outside, in October.

If anything, I would like to see the climate change happen, so the science could be proved right, regardless of the consequences. This isn’t being political, it is being selfish.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

Parents learn the uses of power and its limits. They can insist on certain outward behavior but cannot change inner attitudes. They can require obedience but not goodness - and certainly not love.

There is nothing more dangerous than a philosopher who wants to change the world

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.