Top 1200 Personal Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

All media work us over completely. They are so pervasive in their personal, political, economic, aesthetic, psychological, moral, ethical, and social consequences that they leave no part of us untouched, unaffected, unaltered. The medium is the message. Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments. All media are extensions of some human faculty - psychic or physical.

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.

While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.

Organized religion has a part in the evolution of personal religion. It is the material upon which personal religion is grafted, but the process of grafting must be individual. Every human soul must, through thought, prayer, and study, cultivate his [sic] own religion to suit himself.

I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.

People are afraid of change, but change can also mean possibilities and new things to explore.

As an actor, you have to face the public all the time. It is a job that people fantasies, but it also creates prejudices; these prejudices are the scariest things. People judge a personal life or your image, and it can affect the characters I play. Therefore, I try not to showcase my personal life too much.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

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.

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

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.

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.

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

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

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

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

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

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'.

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

Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

I think we can achieve meaningful change, but only if we demand that the institutions themselves change their behavior.

We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.

I think just... never date anyone who doesn't accept you, and don't change for them. They aren't going to change for you.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

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

You can positively affect and change a social circumstance with art, and it’s vital that a change happens now.

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a lot of questions is that part of this job and this life we've chosen is doing personal exploration in front of an audience. In a lot of ways, that's what art is: personal searching with people watching.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. To be born again is not to become somebody else, but to become ourselves.

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!'

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.

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.

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

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

Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

We cannot change others, but when we change ourselves, we may end up changing the world.

I don't let a poem go into the world unless I feel that I've transformed the experience in some way. Even poems I've written in the past that appear very personal often are fictions of the personal, which nevertheless reveal concerns of mine. I've always thought of my first-person speaker as an amalgam of selves, maybe of other people's experiences as well.

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

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.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

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

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.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

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.

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

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

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

Fixing things requires change and change always creates conflict. But that is why you are a leader.

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