Top 1200 Creating Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

One can't change one's life experience, but even if I could, I wouldn't change it because of all the wonderful things that have happened to me.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

Fear is an exciting time. It's our soul telling us that we need to change. Change is powerful.

We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.

I wanted to bring that message to people that you can change at any time once you decide to make that change.

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.

My life is based on change. What I say is OK for the next ten minutes, then I change my mind.

Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.

I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.

I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.

Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.

The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

The change doesn't come from Washington ever. Change comes from below. It comes from the pressure building amongst the American people.

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

What really makes it an invention is that someone decides not to change the solution to a known problem, but to change the question.

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

We've navigated a lot of change at Campbell's. The best thing for me to be able to do is to discuss that change with people.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

My illusion is to have something to transmit. If I can't change the world, at least I want to change the way people look at it.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

As I get older and unavoidably change a bit living as a celebrity, I always promise myself not to change.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

Inconsistency is the bugbear of fools! I wouldn't give a damn for a fellow who couldn't change his mind with a change of conditions.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

If we want to change things, we must first change ourselves. If we want to play - if we want to change the world - we must first show up on the field to score.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change, and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

There's all kind of things going on in the world that I don't like but I can't change. But at least I can say, 'Change the way you eat!'

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.