Top 1200 Change Agent Quotes & Sayings

This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".

You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an actor - of course you need an agent - but any kind of agency that's selling something for you, you think, "Why can't I sell this myself? It doesn't make sense."

[I am a co - creator], an active agent in this universe who makes things happen. If I want the world to change, I have to change it.

When I was growing up, government was the agent of change: it was a developing country. What was important was to make a difference.

You don't have to run away from life your whole life. You can really live. You can change. And you can be an agent of change.

Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.

I truly believe that art can be an agent of change and has been, throughout history, a tool to enlighten the individual and society.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.

Motive may be inferred only when the stimuli in the agent's environment are open to view and the influences leading an agent to a particular action can be evaluated.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.

My agent makes 10% of what you make. When your agent tells you to take a vacation, you know you're exhausted.

I sold 'Hattie Big Sky' without an agent but quickly realized a writing career required an agent.

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

Business is society's change agent.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.

Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.

I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months.

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.

Change is often the agent of progress in ways we can't always readily see in the early days.

Donald Trump's a change agent. So am I.

If you want to be a change agent, you have to ready to fail.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

I think we've been an agent for change, everywhere, and I think change frightens people. They're going nicely in what seems like a settled industry, and someone comes in and says "I can do this better. It doesn't matter how nice that other one is." That's one of the distinguishing points of our acquisitions.

As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity-'teleological activity.' He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

To survive and succeed, every organization will have to turn itself into a change agent

Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.

In a nation of millions and a world of billions, the individual is still the first and basic agent of change.

Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

There is no more time for us left to revive our great country. No more time to repeat our mistakes of the past. Washington needs a complete turnaround, and Donald Trump is the agent of change, and he will be the leader of the change we need.

My first agent told me to change my name or I'd only play Jewish parts or Indians. Of course I refused to change it. Shortly thereafter she came up to me and told me I had to keep it, because her numerologist said it was very, very good.

Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into responsible citizens. That needs another kind of change agent.

I signed with an acting agent first; I wasn't really interested in signing with a modeling agent. But that same day, they said, 'You should go over to Ford.'

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

Let me start off by saying that in 2000 I said, 'Vote for me. I'm an agent of change.' In 2004, I said, 'I'm not interested in change - I want to continue as president.' Every candidate has got to say 'change.' That's what the American people expect.

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

I think people in America have had enough, and Donald Trump's the change agent.

My brother is an agent, so he is in the business. Is he my agent? No, no, no. That would never work.

It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.

My long-term ambition is to be an agent of change.

When it comes to representation and agent meetings, a lot of times actors go into the meeting with the idea that they need the agent to pick them - but it's a partnership.

Social cognitive theory rejects the dichotomous conception of self as agent and self as object. Acting on the environment and acting on oneself entail shifting the perspective of the same agent rather than reifying different selves regulating each other or transforming the self from agent to object

If you haven't taken a writing class, take a writing class. I took every class that was available in my area. I went to conferences inside and outside my area to network with people. That's how I got my agent. I found my agent through another agent who was at a conference.

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

It wasn't exactly a cattle call. I had an agent, and they were seeing people for the parts, so my agent said, "Here's the script, see if there's anything that speaks to you." And I did, and I called my agent and said, "I think this character Data is kind of interesting," and she said, "Well, okay, I'll get you the appointment with Junie Lowry." I had to read with the casting agent first, 'cause nobody really knew me then. Then after that, I had, I think, six different auditions for the role. And finally it was me [on Star Trek].

In rural communities, people are upset with the government, upset with what they see as business as usual. They saw Obama as a change agent, and they saw Donald Trump as a change agent.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

People don't realize how much money you have to spend: styling, publicity, a manager, and your agent. That's a chunk of change.

I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

I'm a change agent. And what we're beginning to see is a lot of the establish people, one more time, trying to stop me.