Quotes about: change

I choose to live in Nashville because my whole family is there. I couldn't re-engage with the ever-changing face of the company, so I'm not begrudging any of that. As the music business continues to change, I don't know if it would ever make sense to sign with two majors. Record companies just have to reinvent the wheel as they go.
– Amy Grant
Survey data suggest that war has become more unpopular. The majority of the American people now think it was a mistake, in a shift away from the 51 percent that endorsed it on Election Day. Admittedly this is only a small change in the population, from a majority to a minority. Nor do the changers earn grace for their new opinions. They still endorsed the war on Election Day and are still responsible for it.
– Andrew Greeley
We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
– Judd Gregg
We can leave our legacy only if we are willing to change - to go beyond partisan labels, and to solve the problems facing Washingtonians.
– Christine Gregoire
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
– Ursula K. Le Guin
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.
– James Gunn
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
– Woody Guthrie
There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.
– Ernest Gaines
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
– Robert C. Gallagher
There is no reason for anyone in this country, anyone except a police officer or a military person, to buy, to own, to have, to use a handgun... and the only way to do that is to change the Constitution.
– Michael Gartner
Great wealth always supports the party in power, no matter how corrupt it may be. It never exerts itself for reform, for it instinctively fears change.
– Herbert George
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
– Jane Goodall
Our grandchildren accept us for ourselves, without rebuke or effort to change us, as no one in our entire lives has ever done, not our parents, siblings, spouses, friends - and hardly ever our own grown children.
– Ruth Goode
A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks.
– Charles Gordy
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.
– Jennifer M. Granholm
Ordinary women attempt to change our bodies to resemble a pornographic ideal. Ordinary women construct a false self and come to hate this self.
– Susan Griffin
This process of change since my stroke has been very gradual. It is going on all the time... It is partly a physical transformation. The body itself is undergoing great changes. My problem before was that I was living largely from the head; and then after the stroke I got down into the heart.
– Bede Griffiths
The art of the novel, however, has fallen into such a state of stagnation - a lassitude acknowledged and discussed by the whole of critical opinion - that it is hard to imagine such an art can survive for long without some radical change. To many, the solution seems simple enough: such a change being impossible, the art of the novel is dying.
– Alain Robbe Grillet
There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
– Andy Grove
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.
– Francesco Guicciardini
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
– David Ben-Gurion
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
– Alexander Hamilton
I'm aware that a lot of what is happening in jazz has not had a very dynamic change in a long time.
– Herbie Hancock
So I didn't actually change my name the way some people did.
– Herbie Hancock
We've been looking at machines for so long, I really wish the technology community would look at human beings first for a change, let's balance the thing out.
– Herbie Hancock
You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.
– Herbie Hancock
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I have something growing in my bum and that would change my perspective on everything instantaneously, on what is and what is not important.
– Tom Hanks
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
– Thomas Hardy
I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.
– Stephen Harper
How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
– Franco Harris
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
– Sydney J. Harris
I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.
– Benjamin Harrison
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
– George Harrison
If you really look at humor, that's what most of it is anyway. Somebody wisecracking at somebody else. Putting them down. If you look at all the sitcoms, that's all sitcoms are today. Things never change. Sardonic, sarcastic humor is always prevalent. It's hard to do something funny without being that way. It's classier if you didn't have to resort to it, I think.
– Johnny Hart
You open your box and select a new fly, then lengthen the tippet before the next try, change your position to help with the cast, and hope you have made the right decision at last, now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.
– George W. Harvey
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
– Vaclav Havel
People change and forget to tell each other.
– Lillian Hellman
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
– Jimi Hendrix
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
– Katharine Hepburn
Change alone is unchanging.
– Heraclitus
There is nothing permanent except change.
– Heraclitus
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
– Frank Herbert
I don't consider stardom to be anything related with me. I hope that the only way this business will ever change me will be (giving me) a good life.
– Jennifer Love Hewitt
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
– Anita Hill
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
– Alfred Hitchcock
In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
– Eric Hoffer
I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
– Billie Holiday
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
– Horace
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
– Doug Horton
To change what you get you must change who you are.
– Vernon Howard
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.
– John Hughes
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
– John Hughes
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
– Evan Hunter
I stand before you in the spirit of pure public service - not as a protector of the status quo, but as an agent of change.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.
– John Hurt
I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.
– Anthony Hamilton
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
You can't jam change down the American people's throat.
– Dennis Hastert
Since I am a teacher and I lecture on social change, and on up-leveling people's lives, science fiction's a great place where you can really explore a lot of territory.
– Richard Hatch
I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.
– Teri Hatcher
A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
– Katharine Butler Hathaway
I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.
– Ronnie Hawkins
If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.
– Hazel Henderson
Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed; the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day.
– Frances Hesselbein
If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.
– Robert Hewison
Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
– Burton Hillis
We ought to change the legend on our money from In God We Trust to In Money We Trust; Because, as a nation, we've got far more faith in money these days than we do in God.
– Arthur Hoppe
You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.
– Vanilla Ice
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
I am devoted to detective novels. They make such a nice change from my work.
– Richard Leofric Jackson
Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
– Gerald Jampolsky
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.
– Gerald Jampolsky
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
– Sonia Johnson
There's always someone to tell you you have to. Wrong. Don't. Rather, spend time finding out who you really are. Work on being more of that. A lot better than the futile gotta change treadmill, which never really ends.
– Shirley Jones
The more things change, the more they are the same.
– Alphonse Karr
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
– John F. Kennedy
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
Unlike Washington, which is stuck in ideological gridlock, Americans feel the impact of climate change in their own hometowns and they know something must be done.
– John F. Kerry
What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
– John F. Kerry
I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.
– Nikita Khrushchev
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
– Ben Kingsley
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
– Donald Knuth
As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.
– Ted Kulongoski
The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
– Aung San Suu Kyi
Basic human principles don't change, but demographics and other circumstances do, and so should our responses to them.
– Jon Kyl
It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.
– Paul Kagame
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
– Kenneth Kaunda
I truly believe that if we put the strength of our hearts and minds together that we can change prejudice, and that my generation of kids can grow up appreciating the glorious rainbow of diversity.
– Sol Kelley-Jones
You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.
– Marjorie Kellogg
STALE is basically a weekly: most articles will appear for a week. Elements will change constantly. You will lose track a lot. You may be reading an article one day only to find that the end has been removed while you were reading the beginning.
– Michael Kindling
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
– John P. Kotter
Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.
– Andy Law
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why things are going so badly in Iraq? The answer is simple. They have been consistently wrong about Iraq, and the results speak for themselves.
– Senator Patrick Leahy