Change Quotes

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.

When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered.

I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.

If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

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.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.

We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.

When I was a kid, I would watch the grands prix. Everyone dreamt of becoming a race driver, while I only started thinking about it when I was 18 or 19. Only at that age did I seriously start thinking about this job. Before then, I would change ideas from one second to the next.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

Change is the only constant. Hanging on is the only sin.

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.

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws.

Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing.

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

We're trying to create people that are going to change the world.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.

I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Climate change is also clearly a matter of huge interest and concern for the scientific community.

Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.