c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The world changes, but I want that change to be necessary or respectful of what has happened before. Everything changes, and that's quite right.
— Iain Sinclair
I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.
— Cindy Gallop
I want to change the bad boy image that has stuck for a bit because I don't think I am at all how I have been portrayed. I would like that to change because it's awful to hear and read what is said of you.
— Luis Suarez
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
— Carter G. Woodson
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
— Edward de Bono
I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.
— Randy Houser
Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.
— Stacy London
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change.
— Ezra Taft Benson
When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.
— Rush Limbaugh
I believe climate change is real and that we can save our planet while creating millions of good-paying clean energy jobs.
— Hillary Clinton
In a bid for change, we have to take off our coats, be prepared to lose our comfort and security, our jobs and positions of prestige, and our families... A struggle without casualties is no struggle.
— Steven Biko
I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.
— Alain de Botton
Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God, but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
— Karl Barth
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
— Walter Lippmann
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
— Tom Peters
It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
— Brian Eno
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
— Max Muller
Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.
— Michael Porter
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
— Jimi Hendrix
I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change. 
— Gianni Versace
I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.
— Greg Behrendt
Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
Once I find a bag that I love, I wear it always. I just don't change my bags. I literally find one and stay with it.
— Cara Delevingne
Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.
— Sarah Parcak
Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Nobody knows the future with certainty. We can, however, identify ongoing patterns of change.
— Alvin Toffler
I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.
— Victoria Woodhull
Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.
— Joyce Meyer
I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.
— Maz Jobrani
Our only security is our ability to change.
— John Lilly
Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
— Elvis Presley
You can look for external sources of motivation and that can catalyze a change, but it won't sustain one. It has to be from an internal desire.
— Jillian Michaels
When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.
— Francis Chan
The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.
— George M. Church
Citizens victimized by genocide or abandoned by the international community do not make good neighbors, as their thirst for vengeance, their irredentism and their acceptance of violence as a means of generating change can turn them into future threats.
— Samantha Power
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
— William James
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
— Edward Weston
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.
— River Phoenix
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
— Tiberius
When you are through changing, you are through.
— Bruce Barton
We won't be able to stop disasters from happening. On the contrary, climate change may increase the frequency and severity of floods, droughts and storms. But we are better equipped today to prepare for them and reduce their impact.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.
— Alvin Toffler
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
— Charles Kettering
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
— Douglas Horton
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator. 
— Francis Bacon
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Change alone is unchanging.
— Heraclitus
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.
— Isaac Asimov
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
— Jawaharlal Nehru
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
— Leo Tolstoy
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
— Stephen Hawking
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
— Tony Robbins
As with anything creative, change is inevitable.
— Enya
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
— Mary Douglas
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Internet meme is a hijacking of the original idea. Instead of mutating by random change and spreading by a form of Darwinian selection, Internet memes are altered deliberately by human creativity. There is no attempt at accuracy of copying, as with genes - and as with memes in their original version.
— Richard Dawkins
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
— Janet Napolitano
The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.
— Angela Merkel
Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
— Ice T
Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.
— Li Keqiang
I'm not a proper traveler. I don't like to be challenged or have too much of a change and prefer a week away just to relax.
— Karl Pilkington
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
— Richard P. Feynman
Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.
— John D. MacDonald
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
— Michael Phelps
We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.
— Ben Nelson
A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
— Jenny Craig
There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.
— Marilyn Manson
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
— Bob Dylan
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'
— David Hockney
One game, one pitch can change everything for a hitter. The way I like to approach it is that every at-bat is its own unique opportunity to go out there and do something really good.
— Anthony Rizzo
In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.
— Zygmunt Bauman
People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.
— Robbie Williams
When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Culture change means we will do things differently.
— Satya Nadella
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
— John Henry Newman
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Vengeance is not the point change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. 
— Barbara Deming
The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.
— John P. Kotter
I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
— Bob Dylan
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
— Jackie Chan
Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.
— Mason Cooley
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
— Tavis Smiley
Change is not an event, it's a process.
— Cheryl James
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
— Taylor Swift
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
— Guy Kawasaki
I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Argentine, even though I left there. I've been clear about this since I was very young, and I never wanted to change. Barcelona is my home because both the club and the people here have given me everything, but I won't stop being Argentine.
— Lionel Messi
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
— Lynn Margulis
First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.
— George Papandreou
There's a magic that comes from playing entirely to who you are. I've got my specialist subject - in the Mastermind sense - and I wouldn't change it, or who I am.
— Chris Ofili
Fraud is common when you give away billions. Fraud related to Hurricane Katrina spending is estimated to top $2 billion. In addition, debit cards provided to hurricane victims were used to pay for Caribbean vacations, NFL tickets, Dom Perignon champagne, 'Girls Gone Wild' videos, and at least one sex change operation.
— Mark Skousen
Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.
— Nick Cave
My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.
— Ewan McGregor
A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.
— John Berger
Two places are ordained for man to dwell in after this life. While he is here, he may choose, by God's mercy, which he will; but once he is gone from here, he may not do so. For whichever he first goes to, whether he like it well or ill, there he must dwell forevermore. He shall never after change his dwelling, though he hates it ever so badly.
— John Wycliffe
People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.
— Rajeev Shukla
Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.
— Julianne Moore
Change is always a little bit strange.
— Brendon Urie
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
— Kurt Vonnegut
It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.
— Jim Pattison
There was something undifferentiated and yet complete, which existed before Heaven and Earth. Soundless and formless, it depends on nothing and does not change. It operates everywhere and is free from danger. It may be considered the mother of the universe. I do not know its name; I call it Tao.
— Lao Tzu
I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.
— Annalee Newitz
We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
— Roland Martin
I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, 'Why am I lying to everybody?' I would hear other people lie and be like, 'You sound so stupid.' So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes.
— Kendall Jenner
If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.
— Conrad Anker
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
— Marian Wright Edelman
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
— R. D. Laing
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.
— John F. Kennedy
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
— Saul Alinsky
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
— Maya Angelou
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
— William S. Burroughs
Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
— Primo Levi
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
— Mahatma Gandhi
So the next thing I assume I'll be hearing from Republicans, they want to change rules some way, as they do on the House when you get a problem with ethics, they just change the rules.
— Harry Reid
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.
— Ben Vereen
Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My first impression is how I go.
— Andy Garcia
I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
— Michelle Shocked
For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
— Timothy Zahn
For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.
— Casey Affleck
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
— Ben Edwards
What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.
— Susan George
You realize you can't change the world but it shouldn't stop you from trying.
— Kevin Johnson
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
— Kevin Kelly
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
— Arne Jacobsen
Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
— James Lovelock
A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
— Ivor Novello
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.
— Angela Merkel
I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.
— Trevor Nunn
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
— Robert Mugabe
Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.
— Miriam Makeba
If you never change your mind, why have one?
— Edward de Bono
One new feature or fresh take can change everything.
— Neil Young
A zebra does not change its spots.
— Al Gore
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Social change isn't something you should do just to help pad a resume. Follow your passion.
— Nancy Lublin
In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable. 
— Benjamin Disraeli
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
— Havelock Ellis
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
— Edsger Dijkstra
There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.
— Joe Lando
Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.
— Doug E. Fresh
If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
— Andrea Jung
We all know that change is inevitable. It provides us with a challenge and an opportunity to grow and improve and to attract new members with new ideas.
— Ron D. Burton
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.
— Jose Rizal
Some scientists believe climate change is the cause of unprecedented melting of the North Pole, and that effects these very uncertain weather patterns. I think we should listen to those scientists and experts.
— Dalai Lama
Only idiots refuse to change their minds.
— Brigitte Bardot
If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?
— Gloria Steinem
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.
— Joyce Meyer
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
— Yogi Berra
You've got to change incentives for good behavior as opposed to just disincentivizing bad behavior.
— Gavin Newsom
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
— Jim Rohn
I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
— Natalie Portman
Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
— John Locke
In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. 
— Eric Hoffer
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
— Woodrow Wilson
Passion has always been important to me. That won't change. What changes in a woman's perspective. I mean, I have two kids now. I'm a single parent balancing motherhood and my career. That changes the equation.
— Jody Watley
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
— Joyce Meyer
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
— Marilyn Ferguson
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
— Tom Stoppard
Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
— Gary Zukav
The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
— Michael Porter
I wouldn't change a thing about what I've done in the past because what may have been bad choices have all led me to this moment.
— Minnie Driver
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
— Thomas Jefferson
My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don't care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that - building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
— Mark Zuckerberg
There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.
— Tiger Woods
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
— Rob Reiner
There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.
— Josh Billings
I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
— Lea Michele
One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.
— Frank Zappa
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
— John H. Johnson
And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
— John Motson
Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine.
— Mark Batterson
I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
— Dan Hill
I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.
— Johnny Depp
I want to inspire people to change the world. That's something that I feel that I'm meant to do here... really going to change the world. I asked God to make me immortal so I can do it.
— Bryson Tiller
When a plan or strategy fails, people are tempted to assume it was the wrong vision. Plans and strategies can always be changed and improved. But vision doesn't change. Visions are simply refined with time.
— Andy Stanley
Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.
— Scott Tipton
I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.
— Joe Barton
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke.
— David Simon
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
— Gary Ross
For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
— Joyce Cary
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
— Confucius
Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.
— John Ashcroft
The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
— Tom Winnifrith
At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
— Anthony Weiner
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting.
— Wes Anderson
When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.
— Casey Wilson
The important thing to remember, if you are trying something that is an innovation, is not to think too much about it. Because if you take too long, by the time you get there, the world will have changed. You take a risk, and if it doesn't work, you make a change. We are not betting our lives on it.
— Sandro Veronesi
As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
— Wendy Carlos
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
— Ferdinand Marcos
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
— Joseph Parry
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
— Carl Jung
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
— Temple Grandin
In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
— Abdullah II of Jordan
To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
— Vera Wang
Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
— Antonin Scalia
The difference between political terror and ordinary crime becomes clear during the change of regimes, in which former terrorists become well-regarded representatives of their country.
— Jurgen Habermas
You put high heels on and you change.
— Manolo Blahnik
If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.
— will.i.am
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.
— Queen Rania of Jordan
You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
— Gary Hamel
I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'
— Michael Moore
You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.
— Montel Williams
A lot can change in the editing room.
— Diane Lane
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
— James Russell Lowell
You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
— Gael Garcia Bernal
We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.
— Michael K. Powell
A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
— George Foreman
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
— Richard Hooker
Change is unavoidable. You change either to stay ahead or to catch up.
— Mike Hawkins
I don't see a sea change by 2020, but I see migration in the direction of modernization and more flexibility in the generating system going forward.
— Lynn Good
The first thing is to hang on to everybody who is talented, who is entrepreneurial, who wants to make an impact and a change and start attracting ones.
— Dan Gilbert
Anyone who thinks there's safety in numbers hasn't looked at the stock market pages.
— Irene Peter
Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
— Peter Marshall
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
— Rebecca Solnit
In fact, even the current administration now is releasing recent reports indicating that climate change is real, that global warming is occurring, that it is heavily influenced by man-made objects and that it is something we cannot ignore any longer.
— Ron Kind
The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.
— Georg Simmel
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
— D. H. Lawrence
It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.
— Jodi Picoult
I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
— Ian Somerhalder
I feel very lucky to have grown up having interaction with adults who were making change but who were far from perfect beings. That feeling of not being paralyzed by your incredible inadequacy as a human being, which I feel every day, is a part of the legacy that I've gotten from so many of the adult elders.
— Marian Wright Edelman
I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.
— John Raese
People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.
— Ian K. Smith
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
— Marco Rubio
One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.
— Matt Dillon
It became clear to me that simply caring is not enough. To drive real progress, you have to change both hearts and laws. You need both understanding and action.
— Hillary Clinton
To force a change, sometimes you need to stand up. You know what you're worth - rather than what your employer is paying you.
— Alex Morgan
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
— Sharon Stone
In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.
— Nhat Hanh
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
— Robert Fulghum
Although we must change the ways we protect our country, we must also guard against policies that appear attractive but offer little real protection and may even impede our ability to protect ourselves.
— Richard Burr
If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.
— Jeff Foxworthy
Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.
— Michael Chang
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
— Kenneth L. Pike
The point of the essay is to change things.
— Edward Tufte
I like reading my bible, I like bible studies where I get together with others and talk about the word of God and how it relates to us and how we can change to become more like him.
— Bernhard Langer
If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, or I can somehow distort and twist and change the meaning of the Bible.
— Jerry Falwell
Our relations with the other powers of Europe have experienced no essential change since the last session.
— James Monroe
Habits change into character.
— Ovid
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
— Miguel Nicolelis
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.
— Richard Bach
Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.
— Cliff Burton
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
— Tori Amos
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share.
— Trip Hawkins
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.
— Steve Wozniak
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
— Ellen Glasgow
Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
— Esther Dyson
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. 
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
All things are only transitory.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.
— Armistead Maupin
I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.
— Marilyn Manson
It takes a different value system if you wish to change the world.
— Jacque Fresco
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
— Edmund Burke
The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.
— Bill Lee
The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.
— Satchel Paige
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
— Dante Alighieri
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.
— Martin Scorsese
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
— James M. Barrie
With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.
— David Lloyd George
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
— Alvin Toffler
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
— Robert Frost
I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.
— Michael Phelps
Our decade of change has unleashed the ingenuity, creativity, and character of the most extraordinary people in the world - the people of this state, who come from every corner of the globe.
— George Pataki
We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
— Eric Butterworth
Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
— Woody Guthrie
I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.
— Nick Cave
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change, but your dream doesn't have to. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it.
— Tom Clancy
Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.
— Dirk Benedict
We have nothing less to do than to get inside of whole peoples and change their motives and dispositions.
— John Raleigh Mott
Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.
— John Galliano
I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.
— James Hillman
Given that, and assuming that we begin to adjust to issues like climate change and the greenhouse effect, Denver's location in the center of the country becomes a tremendous advantage.
— John Hickenlooper
The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened.
— Todd Gitlin
The prize seemed to change my professional life very little.
— Philip Warren Anderson
On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
— Camryn Manheim
When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.
— Oscar Robertson
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
— C. L. R. James
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
— Shirley Manson
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.
— Erik Estrada
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
— Ernst Mayr
If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.
— Anne Bancroft
My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.
— David Brainerd
Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
— Dan Lipinski
The thing that surprises me most is, you cannot change who you are.
— Jeff Probst
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
— Henry Rollins
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
— Ariel Durant
You have to change your mind with every orchestra because every orchestra has a different character.
— Kurt Masur
Sometimes I think change is a good thing.
— Katie Couric
As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.
— Lynn Redgrave
The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
— Carter Burwell
I had to think ahead. How much would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV pilot, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of change to be made. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.
— Gerald McRaney
The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
— Lajos Kossuth
Change yourself and your work will seem different.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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.
— Hillary Clinton