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Change Quotes


"If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck."


"There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency."


"I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation."


"There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things."


"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact."


"To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish."


"We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are."


"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."


"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."


"If I could change on thing about myself, I would: Have better knees. Mine are shot because of injuries. You're only as good as your legs, whether you're an athlete or an actor."


"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."


"If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle."


"Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key."


"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."


"It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time."


"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."


"I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else."


"God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."


"It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa."


"And I agreed with that, and I couldn't wait to change my name anyway, because I'm not too fond of the name of Reginald. It's a very kind of '50s English name."


"I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to."


"When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions."


"For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change."


"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change."


"He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."


"It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change."



"The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life."


"My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it."


"The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins."


"So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me."


"Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture."


"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."
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