Change Quotes

I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.

I love doing Pilates and dance. It's fun to mix things up and change your program every ten days.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change.

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

What the guys have learned is that whether you're preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn't matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.

The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

People still love a good story, and I don't think that will change.

I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

I think tremendous change has taken place since the World Summit for Children in 1990.

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.