Top 1200 Change Is Hard Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

If you don't change and mix things up, you're going to get run over. One of the things we preach is change, change, change.

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

I've been studying sexism for many years, and it's much easier to document the existence of sexism than it is to document the existence of interventions that reduce it. It's really hard to find ways to change the way people see people in different groups. It should be our goal, and we're working for that, but it's hard.

But then male directors also have a hard time getting their movies made... not as hard as women but it's a tough time for any movie this size. And that particular movie [The Hurt Locker] was so specific. It couldn't hurt, of course, and I'm really glad for her, but I don't know how much it will change things, if at all. The film industry is still so sexist.

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

In 2013, I dedicated myself full-time to combating the very real impacts of climate change. Working across the country, NextGen Climate Action formed new coalitions and worked hard to make climate change a part of our national conversation - and across the country, we had a big impact.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.

I think it's only through learning, and doing something uncomfortable, that you can actually change. That's why I wanted to do a play. I was so scared of it and I knew my brain would really be stretched and it was going to be hard. And it was hard and uncomfortable. Instead of naturally wanting to avoid all those feelings I need to lean toward them more. But saying that, don't ask me to make a lasagna or a Coq au vin.

All things change. The automobiles change every year. [Your] television set gets lighter and smaller and higher definition. All things in the scientific world change. But politicians do not change. They carry old values and they don't even know it.

It's very hard for all of us, when we've committed ourselves to a particular interpretation, to change our minds.

We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.

I think habits and behaviors are very hard to change. And they're even harder when you're back home.

I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.

I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.

I can't make hard street music for the rest of my life. Your references change.

My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day and do the best that I can do.

Life is movement. Movement is change. Every time a sub molecular particle swings through time and space, something is changing. Change, therefore, is inevitable. It is the nature of life itself. The trick in life is not to try to avoid change, but to create change. Then it is the kind of change you choose.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

The world is going to change, whether we like it or not. We can participate in that change or we can be the victims of that change. In a way. Either we go in our stupidity ignorance, and arrogance, bring more destruction in a way, or we're forced to change.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical.

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

It's hard to watch people change, but it's even harder to remember who they used to be.

I want to make change, but I've already made change. I will continue to make change. I'm not just running on a promise of change.

Visiting old haunts is hard on memory. Things shrink, change, and disappear.

People change because of kids. They change how they eat. They change the way they think. They change the way they see one another.

It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

Change makes us confront the great unknown. It introduces different things into our lives. Different places. Different ideas. Different people. It's all hard to accept at times, and change can often be a little scary. But if there's one fact that I've learned from raising a family, from running several businesses, from serving in Congress and now as Governor, it's that nothing has ever grown without changing.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Alack, this world Is full of change, change, change--nothing but change!

It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Things change. Routines change. Things have to change. But change doesn't mean less. It just means different.

I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.

A baby is such a huge change for everyone, so acknowledge that. It's hard, and you don't have to be great at everything right away.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.

When people ask me about my routine, it's hard to say because I change it every week.

Change really isn't as hard as we thought if we capture people's interest and give them enjoyable, worthwhile experiences.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

It is hard to know when we have done enough for the Atonement to change our natures and so qualify us for eternal life. And we don't know how many days we will have to give the service necessary for that mighty change to come. But we know that we will have days enough if only we don't waste them.

The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.

As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.

Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems that are in place - people talk about gerrymandering and the money that's in politics, this is a real thing, a real effect - and it's hard for climate change-denying legislators to get voted out. But I predict it will happen.

When you change 10 out of 22 outfield players, you need time and hard work.

It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.

You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.

I think Donald Trump is going to find it very hard to do the kind of massive change he wants.

It is not hard to change when your biggest problem is whether the weeds prosper in a vegetable patch.

Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.

It hasn't always been easy. There's a lot of hard moments. Sometimes you learn from the end of the bench. Sometimes you learn from injuries. Sometimes you learn the most through the hard things. If you can keep a good attitude and keep on working, eventually situations change, and you can put those things to use.