Change Quotes

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

I should see an enemy of my country in any one who would change by force that which has been established by law.

But in the free market system, you're forced to change.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

The Catholic faith never changes. But the language and mode of manifesting this one faith can change according to peoples, times and places.

I have always said I will try to answer questions honestly. I don't want to change that about myself. I think people appreciate that about me.

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Now more than ever, America needs an agenda for real change.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

You can't change the system through violence.

A zebra does not change its spots.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.