Top 1200 Possible Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

I'm not a musical theatre person, and I never will be, especially after seeing the way it operates. It's so incredibly inefficient. It takes three weeks to effect a change. It can be a lighting change, a script change, a musical change - you have to meet with six different departments, and about a month later, it may happen.

Yes, its one of the basic truths of the universe,....Things don't disappear. They just change, and change and change again.

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.

People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.

One tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Of course, change requires change. Until there is a felt need for change, it is only an event not a pattern.

Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.

Anytime you adopt a new system you change work flow and so people have to change, to some degree change the way in which they do things.

The world is not going to change overnight, nor in my lifetime, nor in my grandchildren's lifetime. But it will change, if we change, not for a day or a year, but for a lifetime. Yes, it will change, if we change.

I do believe that music will change and has to change in some capacity, and I'll either change and reinvent or sink or swim.

The reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.

The horror of the Holocaust is not that it deviated from human norms; the horror is that it didn't. What happened may happen again, to others not necessarily Jews, perpetrated by others, not necessarily Germans. We are all possible victims, possible perpetrators, possible bystanders.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

I think you come to watch baseball, and if you're a true fan, then you enjoy watching baseball. MLB tries to change this and change that, speed up the games, but baseball's baseball. You can't change it. It's America's pastime. It's the greatest game on earth. I don't really want to change it that much.

I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

This league does teach you that it's inevitable that there's constant change, and you always have to continue to embrace change, adapt with change.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better.

One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens.

Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.

We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.

There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Change is inevitable, change will always happen, but you have to apply direction to change, and that's when it's progress.

Things can never be as they were. It's astonishing how we comment on change, as if change is something remarkable. On the contrary, not to change is unnatural, against nature.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

I only change things where I know about a situation. I'd never change just for change.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of thought. It only becomes possible at all after the mathematical notation has, as a result of genuine thought, been so developed that it does the thinking for us, so to speak.

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Government should be good for the liberty of the governed, and that is when it governs to the least possible degree. It should be good for the wealth of the nation, and that is when it acts as little as possible upon the labor that produces it and when it consumes as little as possible. It should be good for the public security, and that is when it protects as much as possible, provided that the protection does not cost more than it brings in.... It is in losing their powers of action that governments improve. Each time that the governed gain space there is progress.

For the timid, change is frightening; for the comfortable, change is threatening; but for the confident, change is opportunity.

You can make change or it can make YOU. Change is to keep us on our toes. Change is to make us look more closely. What doesn't change are the arms you use to hug with. Those stay the same.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

I thought I could make change by just working at ground level, but to change a community, you have to change policies.

When God doesn't change a circumstance, He can change our hearts in knowing that He can change all things for the good.

I have learned God doesn't always change those people we want Him to change; instead, He often uses them to change us.

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.

It's 2009, things change. I'm a creature of habit, so in the beginning I wanted it to be as much like the original as possible, but that's not reality. And reality is, this is a new generation, and people want to see 'Witch Mountain' again.

Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.

You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.

You can change yourself and you can change the situation but you absolutely cannot change other people. Only they can do that.

I think it's possible that China is ready for a serious change regarding its North Korean defector policy. Chinese people are starting to realize that so many defectors have been suffering in China, and it doesn't have to be this way.

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

The change between horse and buggy to automobile is a big change and there hasn't been a major change since.

To be longing for this thing to-day and for that thing to-morrow; to change likings for loathings, and to stand wishing and hankering at a venture--how is it possible for any man to be at rest in this fluctuant, wandering humor and opinion?

I urge the senior members of the political system to form as broad a government as possible that would unite the moderate forces from the Left and Right so that we will be able to bring about real change in the State of Israel.

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.