Why Change Quotes

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  Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Barack Obama (2008). “An American Story: The Speeches of Barack Obama : a Primer”, Independent Publishing Group

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• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

  Confucius

  Life, Change, Wise

  Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Powerful

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• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Artist's Way at Work: Riding the Dragon". Book by Mark A. Bryan with Julia Cameron and Catherine A. Allen, p. 160, 1999.

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• we are the ones we have been waiting for

  Alice Walker

  Change, Confidence, Life Changing

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.342, The New Press

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Change, Eggs, Ordinary

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• We are the ones we've been waiting for.

  June Jordan

  Change, Life Changing, Yes We Can

  June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

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• Why change the world? Change worlds!

  Henry Miller

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.190, New Directions Publishing

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• The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.

  William S. Burroughs

  Order, Ideas, Lunch

  Interview with Allen Ginsberg, sensitiveskinmagazine.com. March 1992.

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• A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

  Eye, Design, Grandfather

  "This Porsche is still driven". Interview with John O'Dell, articles.latimes.com. November 6, 2002.

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• I grew up with the idea that once you found yourself with your clothes, why change?

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Ideas, Clothes, Grew Up

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The functionaries of public power rarely strengthen in their dispositions to abridge it, and an unorganized call for timely amendment is not likely to prevail against an organized opposition to it. We are always told that things are going on well; Why change them? 'Chi sta bene, no si mueve,' said the Italian, 'let him who stands well, stand still.' This is true; and I verily believe they would go on well with us under an absolute monarch, while our present character remains, of order, industry and love of peace, and restrained as he would be, by the proper spirit of the people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Character, Italian

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.

  Frank Lampard

  Sports, Clubs, Position

  Interview with Rob Hobson, www.cfcnet.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• I'm pretty much right on schedule. Start off slow, finish up strong. I don't know why everyone panics. I've been doing this for ten years now. Why change?

  Albert Belle

  Strong, Years, Schedules

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• I just don't think America wants a female host. It's like men don't walk around in skirts in this country. Why change a good thing?

  Vanna White

  Country, Men, Thinking

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• That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.

  Cab Calloway

  Country, Nobody Knows, Company

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• Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, People, Style

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• It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Growing Up, Nice, Moving

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