Change Quotes

• Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Hope

• I think that every person has many, many people inside of them. We change our personality depending on who we are talking to or what situation we are in.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Change
  • Personality

• Anything that catches my ear, I'm into. Things that are different, that change what you're listening to.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Different
  • You
  • Listening

• A modern economy is marked by the feasibility of endogenous change: Modernization brings myriad arrangements from expanded property rights to company law and financial institutions.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Law
  • Change
  • Financial

• I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Life
  • Past
  • Change

• Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Power
  • You
  • Hats

• There is only one reason for that change, and it is to punish people.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Reason
  • Punishment

• My career was quite unusual, so my main advice to someone interested in a career similar to my own is to remain open to change and new opportunities. I like to tell students that the jobs I took after my Ph.D. were not in existence only a few years before.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Career
  • Change
  • Advice

• Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Change
  • Impossible

• I consider myself true, which, I know, some people look at as radical, but I enjoy the normalcies of life. I'm not out there trying to transform things, but somehow, by being easy to talk to, and easy to look at, and on a mainstream TV show, I think that I'm helping the public's opinions about transgendered people to change, slowly.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The only thing that makes change possible is the idea of developing some kind of institution, because the institutions will survive individuals.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Change
  • Kind
  • Survive

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Present

• Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Weather

• The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Up
  • Find
  • Word

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Great
  • Forever

• I’m inclined to think,’ said Fen, ‘that neither opposing nor advocating change makes much difference to the sum total of human misery. History suggests that it stays constant in quantity, if not in kind. Science rids us of plague but endows us with the atom bomb. Humanitarianism rids us of sweated labour but offers us the horrors of political agitation in its place. There’s a choice of evils, but that’s all.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Bomb
  • Horrors
  • Advocating

• There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Women
  • Society
  • Change

• I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Problem

• Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Change
  • Photography
  • Finding

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Moment
  • Flying

• Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • God
  • Exist
  • Existentialism

• Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Decisions
  • Successful People

• If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Game
  • Change
  • Revolution

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