Susan Griffin Quotes
Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Quotes to Explore
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Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
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Dave Chappelle is one of my comedic inspirations. His perspective is crazy, and he's super sharp.
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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.
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The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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I was pretty much a hippie. I was a vegetarian, gypsy-like. I liked to meditate, and it's curious because I was very much attracted to the possibility of change.
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It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.
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When you go out of your country and meet people, you get a wider perspective.
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The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
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I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.
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I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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The art of storytelling is in development, not fact sheets. There are posts you have to hammer into the ground from the start just to get going, but if they don't hold up the house you build, you can change them or take them out.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
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Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
