925 private quotes tagged change

“Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.” — Tony Campolo

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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.” — Serj Tankian

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“I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.” — Richard Nelson Bolles

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“For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.” — Aung San Suu Kyi

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“The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.” — Dale Earnhardt

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“Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.” — Gertrude Stein

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“If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.” — Leo Buscaglia

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“An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.” — William Tecumseh Sherman

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“One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.” — Julius Erving

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“Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.” — Tom Clancy

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“I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.” — Shirley Manson

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“A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.” — Henry A. Wallace

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“We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.” — Rick Warren

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“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson

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“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.” — Kathryn Bigelow

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“It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.” — Gloria Steinem

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“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

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“Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“If you walk down the street and smile at someone, that will get passed on to the next person. That has the power to change someone's day.” — Julianna Margulies

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“I have to try and change the landscape, whatever it is.” — Robert Plant

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“Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.” — Malcolm Fraser

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“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” — Harold Wilson

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