Change Quotes - page 50

Worrying about a problem is not a strategy for change. (Jody Williams)
If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it. View quote
Jody Williams
I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change. View quote
Jody Williams
You never know when a new job isn't going to pan out, or circumstances change, and you'll want to return to your previous company. I myself have done this. While being a hothead about leaving a job may seem satisfying at the time, it's just not very likely to serve you well in the long-run. View quote
Alexandra Levit
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything. View quote
John McGahern
Books don't change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences. View quote
John Piper
It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked. View quote
Jonah Hill
That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all -- other people do. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat. View quote
Jordan Peele
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it. (George Strait)
Human beings have hope. Not matter how desperate things are, they convince themselves that they can change things for the better." - John Gregory (Clash of the Demons) View quote
Joseph Delaney
India is home, and that's never going to change. View quote
Deepika Padukone
More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives. View quote
Donald McCaig
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution. View quote
Eve Ensler
At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples. View quote
Edmund Phelps
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable... View quote
Edna O'Brien
Some leaders want to jump right to planning and fixing their issues, without understanding exactly what the problems are. Others want to skip the training phase since it means pulling people out of their jobs. The point is, each phase is important to enhancing culture and driving real change. View quote
Adrian Gostick
Feelings change with time - or at least pain lessens with time; I know that from experience. View quote
Amy Plum
Traits don't change, states of mind do. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it. (Elizabeth Chandler)
Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you. View quote
Emma Donoghue
Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting. View quote
Emma Stone
Those who are rooted in the depths that are eternal and unchangeable and who rely on unshakeable principles, face change full of courage, courage based on faith. View quote
Emily Greene Balch
Young women who live in areas with high maternal mortality change their behavior less in response to HIV than young women who live in areas with low maternal mortality. View quote
Emily Oster