change quotes

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Things do not change; we change.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Governments don’t control people like they used to.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I don’t think souls or bodies can be changed by incantation. Or anything else by the way.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

I’m never in the same place for more than, like, three days at a time. Things can change from one minute to the next.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I’m not looking to freak people out – eating rodents or bugs. I don’t do that anymore.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I think we all change each other’s paths. I don’t know which law idea that is in physics, but I don’t think any of us can live without affecting one another.

A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren’t dependent on Washington doing something different.

All things are only transitory.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don’t like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they’re 95 percent dead wood.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Never marry someone in hope that they’ll change later.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It’s not like an action star.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

‚Hope and change‘ has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

Revolutions go not backward.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.