Top 1200 Creating Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

You can't change your attitude because you're the champion. I've always kept my feet on the ground and never wanted to change.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

Instead of trying to change people, we could change the world.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.

Camp is like this set-apart world where people go to try to change who they are, and yet change is really scary.

In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

Drivers are pretty well set, but crew chiefs, they change their business cards like they change their pants.

I'm not about change for the sake of change, but we should always be evaluating any initiative we're working on to see if we can do it better.

Commercial success won't come to us from a change in the music. It will gradually be the result of a change in the appetite of the audience.

No matter which path you are on, always do this: Question your path! If you are on the wrong path, change it; no matter on which mile of the road, change it! Till you find the right path, change all the paths!

Change can be uncomfortable and scary. But I believe change exists to teach us to appreciate and enjoy the right now.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

If we allow the love of Christ to change our heart, then we can change the world. This is the secret of authentic happiness.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

The times change, and if you don't change with them, you get left behind.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

When we feel we are powerless our ego most wants to change the things in our world. As we realize we have the power to change our reality the maturity that comes with that understanding changes us, and we find ourselves in acceptance of what is with less desire of feeling our need to change the world around us.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.

I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

The potential of Mexico, Canada and the United States is enormous. We have a combined population of half a billion people; peaceful trade-friendly borders that are the envy of the world; the prospect of energy independence is within reach and will change the geopolitical situation of United States; we do a trillion dollars in trade among the three countries; more than 18,000 American companies are involved in foreign direct investment in Mexico and Canada; an increasing number of Mexican companies are creating jobs in the United States.

It is about trying to entertain and win, that is the ultimate, but you have to keep winning first to change the things that need to change.

All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. All change is the result of a change in the contemporary state of mind.

Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

The sentiment that I had a little trouble with was the idea that, "You change the school, you change the community." I couldn't wrap my mind around that.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

The ideas of right and wrong change with the experience of the race, and this change is wrought by the gradual ascertaining of consequences - of results.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

Even if change in a voice is light, and people maybe don't notice it, that slight change is, for singers, a bit of an earthquake.

If you really want to change the world, change kids when they're two.

You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.

It's easier to change the game than to change the people playing it.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional 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.

I'm a big believer that if you want things to change you have to embody that change.

Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

Never worry about things That you are unable to change. Change your own way Of looking at truth.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.

You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.

[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.