Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jobs

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Rebecca Solnit

What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what seems the most fundamental and most pervasive in all the ensuing changes is the loss of faith in authority: the authority of government, of science, of patriarchy, of progress, of capitalism, of violence, of whiteness.

Samuel Johnson

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Robert Jordan

What can't be changed must be endured.

Rodney Dangerfield

They change the sheets every day... from one bed to another.

Robert M. Pirsig

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert Evans

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

Steve Schmidt

There are change elections and there are 'more of the same' elections, and there was a lot of economic anxiety in the 1992 election and (Bill Clinton) was able to drive a change narrative. after eight years of Barack Obama, it's very difficult to understand what kind of change it is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy could represent.

Stephen Covey

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.

Stephen Covey

Courage isn't absenct of fear, it is the awareness that something else is important

Stephen Covey

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Stephen Covey

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Stephen Covey

We can never really change someone; people must change themselves.

Stephen Covey

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

Stephen Covey

I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader.

Stephen Covey

To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.

Viktor E. Frankl

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

Vanilla Ice

You can't please everybody, and basically I just decided to please myself first on this record. This record is more like my diary and I am expressing myself through my music. And that's what it should be about. That's why I didn't change my name or anything. It's not about the name; it's about the music. The old saying goes that video killed the radio star and it's very true. And now I'm just letting everything revolve around the music. There is no image; I am just being myself.

Vachel Lindsay

Change the fabric of your own soul and your own visions, and you change all.

Sutton Foster

I am okay that has changed and I have some more wrinkles and my body is changing.

Sophie Kinsella

My life has changed, and I'm changing with it.

Sophocles

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

Stephen King

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

Stanley Tucci

I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day.

Sophie Swetchine

In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.

Thomas Merton

a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.

Thomas Carlyle

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Thomas Carlyle

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Thomas Carlyle

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Tony Hsieh

Never accept or be too comfortable with the status quo, because the companies that get into trouble are historically the ones that aren't able to adapt to change and respond quickly enough.

Steve Martin

College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.