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

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Revolutions go not backward.

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

I don’t know about other people, but I love to work.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.

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

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

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 world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

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.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

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.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

You can’t do something forever.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I don’t like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it.

The status quo sucks.

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

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.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

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.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Nothing endures but change.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it, there is no harm. The day you feel that you are not working hard and are only looking at the benefits, that’s where the problem is.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.