925 private quotes tagged change

“Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.” — Peace Pilgrim

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“Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.” — Linda Ellerbee

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“Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.” — Hamid Karzai

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“Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.” — Mario Batali

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“There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.” — Harri Holkeri

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“Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.” — Nick Clegg

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“Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.” — Charles Sanders Peirce

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“I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,' which was very long, I got repetitive stress syndrome. My right wrist collapsed, so I started using my left hand. The prose I wrote with my left hand came out denser, so later on I had to change it.” — Ben Okri

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“I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.” — Andy Murray

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“Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.” — Michael Porter

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“The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.” — Paul Wellstone

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“If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“One of the things I've always personally tried to stress with this band was to have some kind of visual aspect and to be consistent with it - like, not to change.” — Peter Steele

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“Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.” — Brett Favre

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“I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.” — Al Gore

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“I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.” — Jeff Cooper

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“I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate.” — Rick Springfield

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“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

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“I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.” — Debra Winger

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“I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.” — Jeanette Winterson

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“Obama has no power to change American policy because there are people who specialize in drawing these policies, which have been and still are hostile towards Islam.” — Muqtada al Sadr

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“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

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“The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.” — Al Gore

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