When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man’s features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

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.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

I am desperate for change – now – not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Now we’re in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change – we’re doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change – inch by inch, day by day.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

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.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

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.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

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.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

All things are only transitory.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I’d be the chief minister.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

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.

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

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.