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Change Quotes


"The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future."


"So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered."


"With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing."


"I wouldn't change a thing - except my bank balance."


"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work."


"We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change."


"Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well."


"It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name."


"We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change."


"Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best."


"And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we will demand change."


"People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician."


"If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change."


"It's the most unhappy people who most fear change."


"I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it."


"There are certain pressures and things that change your life to a degree that, in the cost benefit analysis that constantly goes on, sometimes makes you think, 'Maybe I should just leave.'"


"Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins."


"Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons."


""Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better."


"Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas."


"It's been quite a 'pattern interrupt', a massive change of the old programming."


"A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind."


"If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me."


"Revolution doesn't have to do with smashing something; it has to do with bringing something forth. If you spend all your time thinking about that which you are attacking, then you are negatively bound to it. You have to find the zeal in yourself and bring that out."


"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."


"That taught me one lesson which is that you're naive to believe that bands can change the world. Bands are very naive to think that just if their audience thinks that they can change the world, that they can. That was quite a lesson for my career, really."


"One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives."


"This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future."


"A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it."


"Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger."


"It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job."


"In international or national crises, there are always questions of lack of confidence. You have to change the minds of the people in order to get results."


"They said just keep doing my thing, don't try to change anything, which I won't."
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