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Change Quotes


"We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments."


"But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies."


"People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation."


"Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine."


"The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough."


"We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today."



"Steve Jobs didn't really set the direction of my Apple I and Apple II designs but he did the more important part of turning them into a product that would change the world. I don't deny that."


"Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change."


"I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has."



"I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it."


"The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform."


"What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet."


"If, as is natural, you focus on the corruption and on those threatened institutions that are trying to prevent change - even though they don't really know what they're trying to prevent - then you can get pessimistic."


"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome."


"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."


"The great growling engine of change - technology."



"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."


"And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?"


"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.'"


"I really believed that if I could play that character, who is grounded in the earth and the history of the United States - not the kind of role I usually play - it would help me change the perception out there and my own perception of what I can accomplish as a performer."


"Win or lose, good or bad, the experience will change you."


"Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different."


"An organization's reason for being, like that of any organism, is to help the parts that are in relationship to each other, to be able to deal with change in the environment."


"Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally."


"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."


"Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."


"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was."


"Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change."


"I'm very strict with my packing and have everything in its right place. I never change a rule. I hardly use anything in the hotel room. I wheel my own wardrobe in and that's it."
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