Quotes about: change

Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
– William S. Burroughs
Change is the end result of all true learning.
– Leo Buscaglia
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
– Leo Buscaglia
Indeed, even if one believed that criticisms of Israel are by and large heard as anti-semitic (by Jews, anti-semites, or people who could be described as neither), it would become the responsibility of all of us to change the conditions of reception so that the public might begin to distinguish between criticism of Israel and a hatred of Jews.
– Judith Butler
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies with beauty, which is varying every hour, bit, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower, that breathes on earth the air of paradise.
– Michelangelo
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
– Sai Baba
According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
– Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which we now exist has to be radically changed... It means facing a system that does not lend its self to your needs and devising means by which you change that system.
– Ella Baker
One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.
– Ella Baker
My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.
– Julian Barbour
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
– Joel A. Barker
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
– Karl Barth
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
– Miriam Beard
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty, yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly, that may I die if I would change places with the Persian King.
– Johann Becher
Dozens of meetings, hundreds of man-hours, millions of dollars and months of angst... went into the name change... the most sweeping of changes brought about by the most persnickity attention to detail.
– Lisa Belkin
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
– Nathaniel Branden
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
– Anthony Brandt
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
– Jacob M. Braude
And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
– Jackson Browne
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.
– Giordano Bruno
Disarming behavior, where you have two sides involved in a conflict that everybody has stereotypes of the evil other side that is convinced that they would never ever do something reasonable. If a leader on one of those sides were to defy those stereotypes then it would change everything.
– Guy Burgess
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
– James Burgh
The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.
– James MacGregor Burns
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
– Cliff Burton
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
– Eric Butterworth
I had great, great times as a Little League coach. People were talking about me quitting acting, and they would say, What about your creative juices? Coaching is creative, because you could take a kid who thought he wasn't any good and, within four minutes, change his mind. And I didn't have to wait six months for them to put music to it.
– James Caan
Dr. King's leadership reaffirmed the promise of our democracy: that everyday people, working together, have the power to change our government and our institutions for the better.
– Maria Cantwell
I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
– Robert Carlyle
Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.
– Emily Carr
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
– Angela Carter
When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.
– Jimmy Carter
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
– Joyce Cary
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
– Nick Cave
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
– Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
– Jackie Chan
Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.
– Michael Chang
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
– Alexander Chase
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
– G. K. Chesterton
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
– Margaret Cho
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
– Deepak Chopra
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
– Sir Winston Churchill
That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
We change ideas like neckties.
– Emile M. Cioran
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.
– Tom Clancy
I use the same definition of accessibility everywhere: accommodating features a person cannot change or cannot change easily.
– Joe Clark
If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
– Eldridge Cleaver
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
– John Cleese
If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
– Hillary Clinton
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
– Hillary Clinton
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
– Hillary Clinton
Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.
– Chuck Close
Well, I think the president is going to do well in terms of his influence for positive change here in the Congress, making sure that we don't overspend, making sure that we spend for only those programs that are justified.
– Thad Cochran
The only mention I'll make of the Simpson case is that it provided a sea-change for all of our lives. I'm still the same lawyer as I was before, but the opportunities were somewhat different and I was asked to move to New York, at least part of the time, to do a television show.
– Johnnie Cochran
The president appoints the judges. Your lives and your children's lives can change by all of these appellate court judges who will be appointed who will reinterpret laws, and things can change.
– Johnnie Cochran
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
– Alan Cohen
Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
– Norm Coleman
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
– Charles Caleb Colton
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
– Confucius
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
– Confucius
I have a boyfriend for a change! To me everything's nicer if you feel like you're in love. It's better. I probably have more energy for what we do. I'm probably more relaxed. He brings me back to being Andrea Corr, in Dundalk, in my garden.
– Andrea Corr
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
– Jacques Cousteau
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
– Stephen Covey
I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a transformer in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.
– Stephen Covey
Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
– Davy Crockett
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
– Philip Crosby
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
– Philip Crosby
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
– Philip Crosby
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
– Tiberius
Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
– Malcolm Campbell
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
– Wendy Carlos
A quote is a personal possession and you have no right to change it.
– Ray Cave
Man United have shops all round the world. It's a big money spinner plus the fact that they change their strip every five minutes.
– Jack Charlton
Of course it was a method of play you had to change because people get the idea once they have played against you.
– Jack Charlton
We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.
– Don Cheadle
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
– Charles W. Chesnutt
It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
– Colley Cibber
Advertising is far from impotent or harmless; it is not a mere mirror image. Its power is real, and on the brink of a great increase. Not the power to brainwash overnight, but the power to create subtle and real change. The power to prevail.
– Eric Clark
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
– Karen Kaiser Clark
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
– Kenneth Clarke
When I marry my name will not change.
– Kim Clijsters
The earnest weatherman is even more hilarious than in America because his forecasts of change are even more unchanging, and his wondrous maps are always pocked with countless rain cloud symbols that seem permanently rooted across the beloved isle.
– Francis X. Clines
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.
– Glenda Cloud
Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.
– Robert Conklin
I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply by happenstance. When that happens you don't really want to change anything, even if you could. Editorially my regrets are few and for the most part minor. I look back on my first published book and think I held on to it too long, babied it too long.
– Michael Connelly
To write more from memory and to be more creative - I think - because I am still writing about Los Angeles but I can't walk out my door and immediately drive to places I am writing about. So I think it has been a very good change for me after 11 books to start writing this way.
– Michael Connelly
To learn, a person must want to change, to be better, to do differently, and this resistance does not occur without resistance. Resistance may be slight, or it may be great, and it may take a variable number of overt and covert forms.
– Lloyd Allen Cook
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
– Professor Irwin Corey
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
– E. Joseph Cossman
Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
– Margaret Cousins
To retain my fascination with chemistry, I have had to change my research fields about every 10 years.
– Donald Cram
It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.
– Cindy Crawford
Don't fear change - embrace it.
– Anthony J. D'Angelo
Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse.
– Mary Daly
They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.
– Rodney Dangerfield
It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.
– Jonathan Davis
We're not trying to change the world; just music.
– Jonathan Davis
At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and values distorted, the change required to restore our nation has always come from the bottom up from our people.
– Howard Dean
As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
– Lea DeLaria
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.
– David Deutsch
Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin Today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation or reward or punishment. Safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you.
– Princess Diana