Quotes about: change

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
– Satchel Paige
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
– George E. Pataki
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
– Pope John Paul II
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.
– Pope Paul VI
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
– Octavio Paz
Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.
– John Pearson
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
– M. Scott Peck
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
– Alan Perlis
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
– Alan Perlis
To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
– Fred Perry
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
– Tom Peters
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
– Tom Peters
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
– William Petty
In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
– Phaedrus
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
– Michael Phelps
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
– Michael Phelps
I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.
– River Phoenix
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
– River Phoenix
I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.
– Pink
Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
– Plato
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
– Plutarch
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
– Alexander Pope
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.
– Alexander Pope
I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
– Natalie Portman
Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.
– J. B. Priestley
Look, you see those groups talkin' about negativity and anger, and they'd do that for two albums, and then you'd see them change up. I knew they couldn't do a Kurt Cobain on their whole career. You can't stay like that all the time. It's like when Hammer tried to go gangster. You can't be something that you're not.
– Prince
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
– Sara Paddison
The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.
– Daniel D. Palmer
The hotel was a forcing house for situations every shade of behavior in public had significance, so that the choice of a seat could constitute a victory or a reverse, and a few words aside change the complexion of half the day.
– Gladys Parrish
It was a cross between a screwball and a change-up. It was a screw-up.
– Bob Patterson
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
– Alexander Payne
Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.
– Gaylord Perry
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
– Marge Piercy
Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.
– William Pollard
I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
– Carly Pope
People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. A leader's job is to help people have vision of their potential.
– John Porter
Judgmentalism assumes that you have the right to change someone else. Well, you don't. You only have the right to choose how you will change and behave. Trust others to make their own choices. Put the accountability for another's actions where it belongs, on the other person's shoulders.
– Vince Poscente
I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.
– J. F. Powers
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict?
– Max de Pree
I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.
– Dennis Quaid
We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.
– Dan Quayle
Change brings opportunity.
– Nido Qubein
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
– Anna Quindlen
Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
– Marcus Fabius Quintilian
The competitive instinct is what I think drives organizations and people to become better and better. It can promote change toward progress and development, which is good for everybody. It can be the motivating force behind improvement in our social well-being that is far beyond anything we might have imagined on our own.
– Lee R. Raymond
One thing that Buddhism teaches you is that every moment is an opportunity to change.
– Ron Reagan
So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
– Harry Reid
Words are the small change of thought.
– Jules Renard
The moment of change is the only poem.
– Adrienne Rich
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
– Jean Paul Richter
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
– Branch Rickey
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
– Pat Riley
Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.
– Bob Riley
I think you'd change Alabama fundamentally if in six years someone said, 'If you want the best education in America, you've got to live in Alabama.' you'd change economic development, change the image of this state, you'd offer these kids an opportunity they otherwise would never have had.
– Bob Riley
We must now view our problems as opportunities - historic opportunities to change the failed systems of the past and do what's right for our future.
– Bob Riley
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
– Anthony Robbins
Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
– Anthony Robbins
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
– Anthony Robbins
Taste may change, but inclination never.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebreak him and turn him into a pet. He may learn to sheathe his claws in order to beg a few scraps off the dinner table, and you may teach him to be a beast of burden, but it doesn't pay to forget that he'll al ways be what he was born: a wild animal.
– George Lincoln Rockwell
A change of pace in terms of your running pace will give you strength psychologically.
– Bill Rodgers
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
– Carl R. Rogers
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
– Al Rogers
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
– Jim Rohn
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
– Jim Rohn
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
– Jim Rohn
We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.
– Andy Rooney
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
A good part of why I never went back to England was part of that, I didn't want to be in those sort of flowery films. But I think it's a nice change of pace-I don't know how long it'll go for. There will always be the Merchant-Ivory/Kenneth Branagh movies, but there's something else now-really, it's always been there but the Americans getting to see it makes all the difference.
– Tim Roth
I know black women in Tennessee who have worked all their lives, from the time they were twelve years old to the day they died. These women don't listen to the women's liberation rhetoric because they know that it's nothing but a bunch of white women who had certain life-styles and who want to change those life-styles.
– Wilma Rudolph
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
– John Ruskin
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
– Bertrand Russell
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
– Gilda Radner
Change is not a process for the impatient.
– Barbara Reinhold
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
– Charles Revson
Words not only affect us temporarily; they change us, they socialize or unsocialize us.
– David Riesman
I have fun doing the shows. People see you in a different style and that's the best way to show people how you can change.
– Ines Rivero
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
– Carl T. Rowan
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle.
– Arthur Rubinstein
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.
– Jalal Talabani
To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.
– Jalal Talabani
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.
– Jalal Talabani
We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.
– Jalal Talabani
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
– Alfred Lord Tennyson
The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions.
– Valentina Tereshkova
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.
– Margaret Thatcher
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
– Margaret Thatcher
The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.
– Craig Thomas
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
– Cal Thomas
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
– Henry David Thoreau
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
– Alvin Toffler
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
– Alvin Toffler
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
– Brian Tracy
What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
– Simon Travaglia
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
– Harry S. Truman
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
– Serj Tankian
We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon - to anticipate it and plan for it.
– Lisa Taylor