Change Quotes

You just learn one thing for the day, that can change a fight.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

We need a much deeper understanding of exactly what it is our industrial society, in its present creation, is jeopardizing. We need a more profound perception of what is at stake.

We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.

We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

I think I can change the game.

I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

The writers could always do an about-face and change everything

Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

Take a person’s memories, and you change who they are.

Why are you constantly escorting me places?” I say. “Isn’t there a depraved activity you’re supposed to be taking part in? Kicking puppies or spying on girls while they change, or something?

I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.

Any time there's a coaching change, that's something that's pretty significant, and especially for the New York Giants, who have had the same coach for a long period of time. But we embrace it.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I guess it was easier for her to change her name than for her whole family to change theirs.

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

I don't really study television or how things do or don't change. So I don't know anything about that. I'm just a stupid actor.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're all happy families, then everything changes.

For some people, becoming a parent does change them, but it never changed me.

There's no doubt in my mind over the next 25 years how we drive, how we build our houses, how we fly, how we build our buildings, will all change.

The right way to build a company is to experiment in lots of small ways, so that you have plenty of room to make mistakes and change strategies.

I'm a fiscal hawk. I vote against all taxes, but I do believe the environment, and climate change, is a bigger issue than fiscal deficits are as a risk to the nation.

You need a degree of foolishness to cause disruptive change in healthcare. Dare to dream.

I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it.

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.

No matter what, people don't think of me for glamorous parts. I'll go to an audition or a meeting in a pretty dress, and they still think of me as depressed or embattled. Hopefully, that will change.

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.

We cannot depend on change, but we can depend on surprise. However, we cannot always depend on surprise either. This keeps us on our toes.

We have already begun taking concrete steps to change the structure of our economy and, as we have discussed a great deal, to give it a more innovative quality.

Nothing matters for a drastic change in Ukraine more than political transformations.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.

Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change.

The artist reserves the right to remove a blot on the landscape, to change positions of things, to suit his composition, providing only that he does not transgress the laws of probability.

For no change comes calmly over the world.

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race.

Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.

It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

I mean, you know, you're not going to change the human animal. And the human animal really doesn't get a lot smarter.

Some of the strongest resistance to necessary change is the result of what Jim O'Toole has so aptly characterized as "the ideology of comfort and the tyranny of custom."

Understand the "Pygmalion Effect": Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.