Change Quotes - page 65

Dictators are allergic to reform, and they are cunning survivors. They will do whatever it takes to preserve their power and wealth, no matter how much blood ends up on their hands. They are master deceivers and talented manipulators who cannot be trusted to change. (George Ayittey)
I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner. View quote
Haile Gebrselassie
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. View quote
Helle Thorning-Schmidt
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level. View quote
Helmut Jahn
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. View quote
Henri Rousseau
People think that you have to do something huge, like go to Africa and build a school, but you can make a small change in a day. If you change Wednesday, then you change Thursday. Pretty soon it's a week, then a month, then a year. It's bite-size, as opposed to feeling like you have to turn your life inside out to make changes. View quote
Hoda Kotb
The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game. View quote
Howard Wilkinson
One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. View quote
Hugh Mackay
Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up. View quote
Hal Sparks
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it. View quote
Harold Brodkey
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change. (Harold Nicholas)
What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching. View quote
Harri Holkeri
In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results. View quote
Harri Holkeri
Change doesnt always mean progress, but the status quo isnt always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient. View quote
Harsha Bhogle
I just wanna build momentum again. Keeping yourself in work is one thing, keeping yourself in good work's another. But if it doesn't work out, so be it. As the Taoists say, Learn to accept that which you cannot change. View quote
Ian Hart
The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not. View quote
Ike Skelton
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone. View quote
Ike Turner
People expect you to change when you become a mother, and of course my priorities changed when I had Violet. She's number one in my life and the best thing that ever happened to me, but I still have fun. I am still myself, but that is made out to seem like I am rebelling against motherhood. View quote
Imelda May
You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends. View quote
Imogen Poots
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy. View quote
Irving Kirsch
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)
Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people. View quote
James L. Farmer, Jr.
A lot of people get impatient with the pace of change. View quote
James Levine
Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change. View quote
Jane Pauley
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years. View quote
Janet Napolitano