Top 1200 Dramatic Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Every writer has compressed time and procedure, and used clarifying dialogue. That's not a scandal: it's a legitimate dramatic technique.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I've always just admired women who were able to navigate through dramatic and comedic waters and sort of do it all.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

I have in the past tended to overestimate the amount of change I can affect in the short run and then not fully appreciate the change I can affect in the long run. And so I've learned that it's critical to think carefully about the pace of change, and it's something that I've learned the hard way.

The world is a more engaging and less dramatic place than writers ever give it credit for being

By declaring yourself a leader, you're taking initiative and moving into a role of influence in a lively and vital network that's changing the world. We're changing the world, first by changing ourselves and then by touching the world as changed beings. We believe the change in us catalyzes change in others. So in changing the world, we're choosing to be the change we wish to see in the world. By taking on this leadership role, you are choosing to be the change too.

It might sound dramatic and a little grandiose, but as a Latina, I would like to be someone that gives a voice to my culture.

Why are we casting all these stand-up comedians to do 'Breaking Bad,' one of the most dramatic TV shows ever?

When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

I'm going to change the way martial arts is viewed. I'm going to change the game. I'm going to change the way people approach fighting.

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.

Sometimes when you're creating something, it takes on a life of its own, and you can be surprised at how sad or dramatic it might get.

Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.

The PAWS Act is a simple bill that could have a dramatic - and potentially life-saving - effect on the lives of many.

I think that will only really change when the human races begins to suffer some of the extremely severe consequences of climate change which may be some decades ahead. They will then realise, as we have with the financial crisis, that we are up against the wall and hitting the buffers and we have got to change.

I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

When it becomes a part of every man's thinking that a single thought can change the polarity of our entire body toward either life or death - and can likewise change its entire chemistry toward increasing alkalinity or acidity to strengthen it or weaken it - or can change the shape of every corpuscle of matter in the entire body in the direction of either growth or decay - then the medical profession will radically change both its principles and its practices with the ailment of bodies.

I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.

One of the things cognitive science teaches us is that when people define their very identity by a worldview, or a narrative, or a mode of thought, they are unlikely to change-for the simple reason that it is physically part of their brain, and so many other aspects of their brain structure would also have to change; that change is highly unlikely.

My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not times when major change happens, but my experience is that particularly when you're encouraging businesses to change of their own volition, the change is more slow over time. I don't think global trade is going to go away. I think it's unlikely that global trade and multinationals are not going to be around.

You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do small things. But it takes a while to figure out what you actually want to do. And it changes. As you change your interests and desires in philanthropy change, I think you have to be open to that change.

I don't know if I even consider myself a comedian really - I do comedic acting in some films and dramatic in others.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

As a writer, I haven't delved into dramatic writing. As an actor, I could always, even more so than comedy, do drama.

Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yourself? Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.

Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

It's a lot of a workload doing an hour dramatic show. It's just incredible what little time off you get.

Global climate change is real and we have a limited time to change our behavior or live with the consequences. We can all help by making small changes in our lives to letting our voice be heard by our governing bodies. As has always been the case in this country, if the people demand change, it will come.

McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

Becoming people of integrity and honesty does not occur quickly or all at once, nor is it merely a matter of greater personal discipline. It is a change of disposition, a change of heart. And this gradual change of heart is one that the Lord accomplishes within us, through the power of His Spirit, in a line-upon-line fashion.

Though business conditions may change, corporations and securities may change, and financial institutions and regulations may change, human nature remains the same. Thus the important and difficult part of sound investment, which hinges upon the investor's own temperament and attitude, is not much affected by the passing years.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared. If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone' then you only impact the few and not the many.

Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent.

It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.

'There are no easy pickings.' That would be a more accurate, less dramatic statement than 'There's no such thing as a free lunch.'

There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

To be a dramatic writer takes hard work, talent, and discipline. And that's why I just make up crap.

We cannot change the political system, we cannot change the economic system, we cannot change the social system, until the people control the land, and then we take it out of the hands of that sick minority that chooses to pervert the meaning and the intention of humanity.

I dream of acting with Kevin Costner. I would love to do a movie with him. Not something funny, but a dramatic role.

I just happen to like the action-adventure movies. No law that says you can't work in all types of dramatic stuff.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

In the case of 'Fish,' I did the writing, design, and code all at the same time, so the form and the content were fused together. I'd change some words, get an idea, change some code, see if it worked, change more words, and so on.

There's a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you're capable of handling dramatic or comedic material on an adult level.

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.

My character Preet in 'Fanaah' had a very distinctive appearance: loud make-up and dramatic clothes.