Quotes about: change

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am-it seems I change every day.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
– Denis Diderot
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
– Marlene Dietrich
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
– Bill Dixon
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
– William O. Douglas
When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.
– Kirk Douglas
A large part of the people in Hollywood are sheep - and I don't say that unkindly, I say that politically - if Spielberg and Streisand and Geffen and the others were Republicans tomorrow, you would see a shortage of paper to try and change registrations.
– Jerry Doyle
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
– Peter F. Drucker
Everybody has accepted by now that change is unavoidable. But that still implies that change is like death and taxes it should be postponed as long as possible and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheaval, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.
– Peter F. Drucker
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
– Peter F. Drucker
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
– Peter F. Drucker
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
– Wayne Dyer
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
– Bob Dylan
There is nothing so stable as change.
– Bob Dylan
As times change, you want to really revere your heredity, but you don't want to be a shrine. to light candles and kneel.
– Kitty D'Alessio
I think that 9/11 is a greater loss if we do not change our behavior in some way. I think that if we don't turn it into a positive change in some way, those innocent people really died for no purpose. I would like to think they had some important purpose. What I see, that I don't like, is the product of what our land of opportunity can breed.
– Doug Davidson
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.
– Ossie Davis
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
– Jimmy Dean
Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.
– Barbara Deming
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.
– W. Edwards Denning
I think we're seeing in working mothers a change from Thank God it's Friday to Thank God it's Monday. If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent.
– Ann Diehl
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
– Jack Dixon
The power of love to change bodies is legendary, built into folklore, common sense, and everyday experience. Love moves the flesh, it pushes matter around... Throughout history, tender loving care has uniformly been recognized as a valuable element in healing.
– Larry Dossey
Change Management will be essential in all money matters. With profits from sugar continuing to decline and with ecological, aesthetic and employment factors in the industry all very relevant, our management of the change process will be critical to how the ultimate decision we take in relation to sugar impacts upon our economy and our own way of life here in St. Kitts & Nevis.
– Denzil Douglas
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
– William Drayton
Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.
– Elizabeth Clarke Dunn
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
– Clint Eastwood
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
– Marian Wright Edelman
Anger is not going to change this country and do what needs to be done for America.
– John Edwards
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
– Barbara Ehrenreich
Congestion means lost time, squandered productivity, wasted gasoline, increased safety concerns, and air pollution. it's time to change. My vision is a transportation system that compliments the way Marylanders choose to live - a balance between mass transit and new highway construction.
– Robert. L. Ehrlich
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
– Albert Einstein
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is change; all yields its place and goes.
– Euripides
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.
– Robert Evans
We're inquiring into the deepest nature of our constitutions: How we inherit from each other. How we can change. How our minds think. How our will is related to our thoughts. How our thoughts are related to our molecules.
– Gerald M. Edelman
If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
– Mary Engelbreit
There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.
– Euripedes
Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled This could change your life.
– Helen Exley
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.
– James Farmer
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
– William Feather
It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.
– Marilyn Ferguson
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
– Marilyn Ferguson
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
– Marilyn Ferguson
Researches reported that they developed a self-healing plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.
– Tina Fey
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
– Richard P. Feynman
Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
– Henry Fielding
When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.
– Luis Figo
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
– Ernst Fischer
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.
– Thomas Foran
Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.
– Henry Ford
A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
– George Foreman
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
– Vicente Fox
Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
– Vicente Fox
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
– Vicente Fox
I am a Westerner. We're not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially it's like a mirror, saying, hey, can't you see what's here in your own religion, what are you, stupid?
– Matthew Fox
If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.
– Jeff Foxworthy
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
– Viktor E. Frankl
For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
– Benjamin Franklin
Money should not, and must not, change our commitment to solving problems and building this state.
– Dave Freudenthal
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
– Robert Frost
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
– Robert Frost
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
– Robert Fulghum
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
– Dr. Thomas Fuller
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
– Owen Felltham
It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
– Millard Fillmore
Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
– Heinz Fischer
Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.
– Cotton Fitzsimmons
Change occurs when one becomes what she is, not when she tries to become what she is not.
– Ruth P. Freedman
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
– Mahatma Gandhi
We must become the change we want to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
– Andy Garcia
If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
– Jeff Garcia
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
– Bill Gates
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
– David Lloyd George
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
– J. Paul Getty
I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality. Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference. I was moving about with my own gang, the skinheads, wearing steel-toed army boots and kicking in shop windows.
– Andy Gibb
I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.
– Barry Gibb
We enjoy change and freshness, and disco was only one area we've delved into.
– Barry Gibb
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
– Andre Gide
I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
– Roland Gift
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
– Walter Gilbert
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.
– Nikki Giovanni
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
– Ellen Glasgow
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
– Emma Goldman
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
– Emma Goldman
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
– Emma Goldman
I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.
– Elliott Gould