Quotes about: change

My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success.
– Jesse Tyler Ferguson
My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'
– Daisy Donovan
My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.
– David Crane
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives.
– Jonathan Sacks
Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life.
– Juliette Binoche
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
– Steve Martin
Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
– Joel Osteen
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.
– Nick Clegg
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
– Ibrahim Babangida
More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.
– Kathleen Sebelius
More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
– David Korten
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
– Gertrude Stein
Money and success don't change people they merely amplify what is already there.
– Will Smith
Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.
– Jon Bon Jovi
Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
– Paul Ryan
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.
– Eric McCormack
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
– John Steinbeck
Maybe we all change over time.
– Elizabeth Edwards
Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.
– Jeff Goodell
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
– Henry W. Kendall
Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.
– Tina Weymouth
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
– David Attenborough
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
– Wynton Marsalis
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
– Abel Ferrara
Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.
– James Hillman
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
– Edward de Bono
Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to change, but I've never worked on a movie, including my own, that didn't take advantage of a rehearsal process.
– Albert Brooks
Like it or not, the world evolves, priorities change and so do you.
– Marilu Henner
Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.
– Mark Hyman
Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.
– Carre Otis
Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
– Barack Obama
Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
– Herbert Simon
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
– Bill Watterson
Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.
– Katherine Heigl
Just because you liked something as a youngster doesn't mean you have to like it as an adult. You can change your taste a little bit on the sweets and things like that.
– Mike Ditka
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
– Ted Allen
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
– Herman Cain
It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.
– Barack Obama
It's time for me to do things I like so I will be happy, my wife will be happy, my friends will be happy. I just want to do something I'm proud of. It's time for me to change. I could sign with a company for 10 movies and I'm the king of video and so what?
– Jean Claude Van Damme
It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
– Kate Bosworth
It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
– Marc Jacobs
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
– Brian Eno
It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.
– Christopher Hitchens
It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.
– Jessica Simpson
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
– Gary Busey
It's getting better generally, daily, especially in TV, for women in acting and age and looks count less. As more women come into the business. Change of any sort takes a long time to happen.
– Julie Walters
It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
– Eric Davis
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
– David Attenborough
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
– John H. Johnson
It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth.
– Charles Kuralt
It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.
– Avril Lavigne
It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.
– Marat Safin
It's a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.
– Vivienne Westwood
It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
– Lester B. Pearson
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.
– Gerry Adams
It wasn't so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it's just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.
– Michelle Obama
It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
– Thom Gunn
It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.
– Helena Bonham Carter
It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that's correct, because there's an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.
– Maggie Smith
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
– Martin Scorsese
It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.
– Willy Brandt
It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.
– Gregory Bateson
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
– Luther Burbank
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
– Margaret Cho
It is time to change our policy of appeasement toward the Palestinians, to strengthen our ties with the nation of Israel.
– Rick Perry
It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.
– Simon Mainwaring
It is often when night looks darkest, it is often before the fever breaks that one senses the gathering momentum for change, when one feels that resurrection of hope in the midst of despair and apathy.
– Hillary Clinton
It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.
– Frank B. Kellogg
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
– Charles Darwin
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.
– Gloria Steinem
It is in the mind and the heart where we meet. It's not the body-the body will change.
– Amber Valletta
It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
– James Bovard
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
– Isaac Asimov
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
– F. H. Bradley
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
– Karl Marx
It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage and they must even change their name.
– Agnes Macphail
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
– Thomas Jefferson
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.
– Steven Biko
Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.
– Shimon Peres
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
– Andy Warhol
Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?
– Chris Christie
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
– Stephen Hawking
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
– Doug Larson
Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change - focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can.
– Joy Page
Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.
– Brett Favre
In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.
– John Barton
In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.
– Naveen Jain
In the beginning, New York and I had kind of a love-hate relationship. It seemed so abrasive compared to Europe. But the transformation here in recent years is really something. I don't think I would have seen as much change if I'd lived in any other city in the world.
– Shalom Harlow
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
– Herbert Spencer
In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
– Sarah Palin
In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
– Christina Aguilera
In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.
– Martha Beck
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
– Carl Rogers
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.
– Stephen Hawking
In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.
– Ronnie Dunn
In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.
– Chuck Norris
Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.
– Eliot Spitzer
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
– Herodotus
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
– Yoko Ono