Top 1200 Dramatic Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.

The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

It's a challenge to express real life in dramatic terms. In an entirely "made-up" story, you are sometimes overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

The fundamentals of what journalism is about don't necessarily change. What will change is the delivery of news.

I'm a comedian at heart, and I really can make people laugh, but ever since 'Amadeus,' all I seem to do is play dramatic roles and villains.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

All it takes is one guy to change a locker room. To change the complexity or nature of an atmosphere.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

Hillary Clinton's message is that things will never change, never, ever. My message is that things have to change and they have to change right now.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

I don't get offered many dramatic roles. As soon as my face pops up in a movie, everyone knows I'm the funny guy.

When you are playing a part like that where you have traveled - you begin to think, God what a great life. Independent, living alone and how dramatic.

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Biopharmaceutical research and development efforts have achieved dramatic improvements in global health and longevity, and we are committed to continuing our quest.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.

One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage didn't last very long.

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

I've only had one dramatic role in my entire career and when I did it, I was in heaven and I thought, 'Oh my god, I'm going to get more of these.'

You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon.

Changing quadrants is often a change at the core of who you are, how you think, and how you look at the world. The change is easier for some people than for others simply because some people welcome change and others fight it.

We women, we're always being invited to change our hairstyle, change our clothes, change our wardrobes. It's also important for us to remember as we age to keep changing the way we think of the world. I'm not saying to be flaky at all; but rather than being rigid about something, stay open and available.

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

I am always for change. But I believe in slow and inevitable change and not a forced one, all of a sudden.

Human beings change. Sometimes we change because of our circumstances and experiences.

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

It is not because others tell me I have to change my driving style that I will change.

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.

I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.

Because I've done so many hour dramas, people tend to think of you as more of a dramatic actor and don't see you as doing comedy.

Decide, before you start, that you're going to change three things about what you do all day at work. Then, as you're reading, find the three things and do it. The goal of the reading, then, isn't to persuade you to change, it's to help you choose what to change.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

When men change, maybe Bond will change. But let's wait. I'm not holding my breath.

I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

We no longer even understand the question whether change is by itself good or bad, ...We start out with the axiom that it is the norm. We do not see change as altering the order... We see change as being order itself - indeed the only order we can comprehend today is a dynamic, a moving, a changing one.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

The backstage play, in which the private lives of theater people are put onstage for the world to see, is one of the diciest of dramatic genres.

I think we're looking at the next major superstar in golf. Tiger has a flair for the dramatic and one of those smiles that lights up the screen.

Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better.

No matter how you measure it, women and girls bear the brunt of poverty. But it's also clear that women are also our greatest hope for ending it. We at CARE have long believed that if you change the life of a girl or woman, you don't just change that individual, you change her family and then her community.

I can't really change the games I like to make, and I can't change my own particular aesthetic.