925 private quotes tagged change

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.” — Doris Lessing

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“I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.” — George W. Bush

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“People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.” — Jeremy Renner

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“My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.” — Warren Beatty

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“If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Maybe we all change over time.” — Elizabeth Edwards

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“I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.” — Sienna Miller

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“What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.” — Jeanne Moreau

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“The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.” — James Russell Lowell

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“I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.” — Kelly Lynch

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“Ignorance is always afraid of change.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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“Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.” — James Russell Lowell

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“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.” — Jack Layton

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“What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.” — Richard M. Nixon

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“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?” — Barbra Streisand

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“Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” — Audre Lorde

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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.” — Ernst Fischer

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“No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.” — John Ruskin

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“Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'” — Marilyn Manson

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“Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.” — John Updike

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“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.” — Pink

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“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.” — Brian Tracy

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“We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.” — Earl Nightingale

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“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.” — Katherine Mansfield

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