Change Quotes

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

We will not change in matters of policy until such time as dialogue has begun.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.

I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on.

If it takes talking about unpleasant truths to change Washington, then so be it.

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

The development of a political-economic framework to explore long-run institutional change occupied me during all of the 1980s and led to the publication of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance in 1990.

I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

The game doesn't change.

In the 1999 resolution regarding Taiwan's future passed by the Democratic Progressive Party, it is stated very clearly that any change to the status quo of Taiwan must be decided by the people of Taiwan through referenda.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

I just love the feeling a close family gives you and I wouldn't change it for anything.

Already people are saying we do need a change.

And they've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country.

I think if there's any difference between me and a traditional CEO, it's that I've been unwilling to change myself or shape my personality around what's expected.

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based.

Things can change so fast on the internet.

There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.

Whether you're winning or losing, it is important to always be yourself. You can't change because of the circumstances around you.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.