Quotes about: change

If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.
– Marc Andreessen
If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
– B. F. Skinner
If you're not a real chameleon of an actor and if you're not one of those guys who can really shape-change themselves all the time, one of the ways to keep pushing yourself and keep changing is to be in different kinds of movies.
– Ethan Hawke
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
– John A. Simone, Sr.
If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.
– George Osborne
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
– Mary Douglas
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
– William Glasser
If you want to be certain, you should never get married. You should never change jobs. In fact, you might as well just stay home. Because I don't know anybody who is certain. That need to be certain is just procrastination.
– Mark Burnett
If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.
– Julianna Margulies
If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
– Maynard James Keenan
If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
– will.i.am
If you never change your mind, why have one?
– Edward de Bono
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.
– will.i.am
If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
– Andrea Jung
If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?
– Doug Coupland
If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.
– Jeanette Winterson
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
– Wayne Dyer
If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.
– Jeff Bridges
If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?
– Ian Botham
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
– William James
If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.
– Shia LaBeouf
If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction.
– Jennifer Granholm
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
– Salman Rushdie
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
– Michael Jordan
If we're going to change the laws, let's change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.
– John Dingell
If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.
– Bjorn Lomborg
If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.
– Medgar Evers
If we don't change, millions of American families are just one medical emergency, or one layoff, away from financial disaster and bankruptcy.
– Jim Cooper
If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.
– Michael Franti
If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we should broaden the definition so that won't exclude anyone.
– Jack Kingston
If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.
– Kathryn Bigelow
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
– Carl Jung
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
– Gloria Steinem
If the Frieze Art Fair catches on, I imagine at least two great things happening. First, we will once again have a huge art fair in town that isn't too annoying to go to. More importantly, Frieze may finally show New Yorkers that we can cross our own waters for visual culture. That would change everything.
– Jerry Saltz
If the amount of money going into the war economy were invested in landscape restoration, we would be in a far more positive position. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when the prosperous nations, and in particular the U.S., realize they're wrecking their own kids' lives, there will be a mass change in value.
– Kim Stanley Robinson
If people don't like me for whatever I do, for being me, then that's too bad. I don't want to change to be something that I'm not for other people to like me.
– Vanessa Hudgens
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
– Gary Bauer
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.
– James Hilton
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.
– Malcolm Turnbull
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
– Valerie Jarrett
If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
– Gwen Stefani
If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
– Manolo Blahnik
If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
– Jake Johnson
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
– Naomi Watts
If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live.
– Robert Mapplethorpe
If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
– Brett Favre
If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
– George Papandreou
If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority of our fellow citizens, big change will not come.
– Mitch Daniels
If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
– J. Michael Straczynski
If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.
– Clint Eastwood
I've seen firsthand that being president doesn't change who you are. It reveals who you are.
– Michelle Obama
I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.
– Gordon Ramsay
I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?
– Kevin Costner
I've always thought of acting as a tool to change society. I watch a lot of actors and I see panic in their eyes because they don't know why they act and I know why I act. Whether I'm a good or a bad actor, I know why I do it.
– Andy Serkis
I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated having to change my clothes. As a kid, I had a sailor shirt and the same old corduroy pants, and that's what I wanted to wear everyday.
– Patti Smith
I've always been ambitious since I was nine years old and that was never going to change.
– Katy Perry
I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.
– Avril Lavigne
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City that's hard enough!
– Michael Bloomberg
I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.
– Noomi Rapace
I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.
– Hillary Clinton
I'm not blaming my mom for my life because I am responsible for me, and nobody can change me or ruin me easier than I can.
– Mindy McCready
I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.
– Michelle Obama
I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.
– Chris Kirkpatrick
I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.
– Alanis Morissette
I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.
– Andy Murray
I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.
– Kid Rock
I'm a role model now. I didn't know I was gonna have 13-year-old fans, so I've tried to change a few things here and there. But I also know that the girls don't want me to be Miley Cyrus, either.
– Nicki Minaj
I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.
– Rick Springfield
I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
– Eddie Izzard
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
– Harlan Coben
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
– Ethel Merman
I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.
– Enrique Iglesias
I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance.
– Johnny Thunders
I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
– Mike Peters
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
– Sidney Poitier
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
– Lea Michele
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
– Isaac Watts
I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
– Paul Simon
I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.
– Cameron van der Burgh
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
– Hugh Leonard
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
– Abdul Kalam
I was starting to become impotent through this diet and couldn't perform. How many people who are taking the little blue pill, if they started to change what they are eating most of the time, could change the way their sex life is?
– Morgan Spurlock
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
– Marilyn Manson
I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
– Natan Sharansky
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.
– Ben Okri
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
– Ernie Pyle
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.
– Maria Bello
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
– Rachel Weisz
I wanted to use sports for social change.
– Billie Jean King
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
– Aldous Huxley
I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.
– Kamala Harris
I want to initiate a change in society in the long term.
– Francois Hollande
I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.
– Henry Rollins
I want my daughter to be proud of me and look up to me. I think early on in my pregnancy I realized that to be the mom I want to be, I had to change my life, and that's what I'm doing.
– Holly Madison
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
– Pink
I used to be so aggressive, but after a while I started learning. It's not that I know how to adapt, but I know all styles of fighting so I can change my style of fighting to whatever it needs to be. That just comes from years of training and a lot of sparring partners.
– Marlen Esparza
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
– Alan Alda
I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.
– Gianni Versace
I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.
– Paula Danziger
I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
– George W. Bush