Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey West

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

Gary Zukav

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Sebastian Thrun

Most rules that you think are written in stone are just societal. You can change the game and really reach for the stars and make the world a better place.

Tom Clancy

The objective of a terrorist is to create political change in the society he targets.

Tabatha Coffey

We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Serj Tankian

We first fought the heathens in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.

Walter Kirn

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Wolfgang Schauble

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Willy Brandt

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Wong Kar-wai

In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing things during shooting. Because I worked as a scriptwriter for 10 years, I understood that directors always wanted to change what was originally written, to improve on it.

I loved growing up in Montclair... I think it's grown and changed and embraced change.

Vint Cerf

For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.

Ashley Wagner

I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.

A. S. Byatt

I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.

Alice Waters

I know once people get connected to real food, they never change back.

Ben Carson

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.

bell hooks

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

BeBe Winans

I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.

Becky G

I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.

Tom Glavine

I'm not defined by baseball. I'd love for the Hall of Fame to happen, but if it doesn't, my life won't change. I'll still be coaching my boy's games.

Tony Fadell

Your television has changed, your phone has changed. Why don't these other things you need, that the government tells you you must have in your home, change?

Tomas Berdych

The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially for my height and weight. When the surfaces change, and I start to play on grass, I start to feel it in the lower back and the lower hamstring.

Tim Armstrong

The No. 1 criticism most managers get is that they don't ever change or wait too long to make changes... It's very simple: Either things are performing or they're not. And if it's not performing, we have to make changes.

Shane Smith

Wednesday we saw a real change in our team. I'm excited, the kids are excited, we're all excited.

Levon Kendall

We were kind of talking about it, joking around. It didn't seem like (the Big East tournament run) had much effect. It seemed like we could have lost in the first round and it wouldn't have changed much.

We were all thinking, it's her putback. (Dawn) is a winner. She's the one who made the mistake, so you can guarantee she's going to get herself back in position to change the game.

Jacque Jones

We were all concerned. A man's going to be a man, a woman's going to be a woman. You can't change what they're going to do unless they want to change. He enjoyed life, enjoyed the size he was. ... You can't do anything about it until he decides to change. Hopefully, this will be a wakeup call.

Tim Collins

We were a little surprised, The crest times can change two or three times in a day.

Mike Enzi

We were able to reduce spending through changes in the way lenders operate. But at the same time, we shielded the direct impact to students, and actually increased student opportunities.

We definitely have to change that and make adjustments.

We gave them the game. We were up four, but in the second period we took a couple penalties, the momentum changed and they were on their game.

We don't know what will happen. At this point, we don't know if a virulent strain will develop, or whether it will change over time, so it's not as severe in humans.

Bruce Gordon

Today we know this country has changed forever because this one great unselfish woman kept her seat to defend all her rights,