Top 1200 Unable To Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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.

Renewal is not just innovation and change. It is also the process of bringing the results of change into line with our purposes.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

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

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.

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.

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

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

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

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

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

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

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

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

You can't change the way people think, all you can do is give them a tool, the use of which will change their thinking.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

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.

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.

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

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.

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.

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.

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

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.

I don't think it's you that changes with success - it's the people around you who change. Because of your new status, they change in relation to you.

A great idea can change the world; but to change the universe, men need even much greater ideas!

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."

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

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

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

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.

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

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

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Whoever has the mind stuffed with theories and more theories, suffers horribly because he is unable to realize nothing of what they have read.

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

Most sports federations, corporations, and governments don't change voluntarily. Change is brought by the disenfranchised demanding better.

We've had these bursts of cool years here or there but that's not change. That's a trend. You only hope that this could be the beginning of true 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.

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

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

Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change... If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual's circumstances — and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse — then you don't have life after death; you just have death.

When I don't want anyone to change me, I also don't go out there and keep telling people, 'Change yourself into this' or 'Don't do this, do this.'

If you don't plan to live the Christian life totally committed to knowing your God and to walking in obedience to Him, then don't begin; for this is what Christianity is all about. It is a change of citizenship, a change of governments, a change of allegience. If you have no intention of letting Christ rule your life, then forget Christianity; it's not for you.

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

In almost all city governments in America, the small group of people who don't want change are able to block change.

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

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it.

Climate change is a serious problem. We all need to do what we can. Unless that means I've got to change stuff. Then I'm not doing it.

Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

[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.

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