Change Quotes

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Global climate change has a profound impact on the survival and development of mankind. It is a major challenge facing all countries.

This... there's nothing more difficult than this. Because we have really, truly good white people in important positions. And the fact of the matter is that there are a limited number of those positions. And unless we are conscious of the need to have more people of color, gays, other people in those positions we will not change the problem. We're in a position where you have to say who is going to step down so someone else can have power.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Thus, the forces and value systems that are most threatened by this shift are becoming the most coherent and are rising to the top as minority or plurality powers. But they do not represent either the shift, the change, or the future.

If consumers make better choices, the marketplace will change.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.

Theater actors like to change character roles. They don't like to always do the same thing.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

Drilling in the refuge will not solve America's energy problem. The Energy Department's own figures show that drilling would not change gas prices by more than a penny a gallon, and this would be 20 years from now.

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.

I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.

With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.

Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Change before you have to.

It was all to do with the change of producer as well as political reasons I don't really comprehend.

I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.