Can't Change People Quotes - Page 2

• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Change, Business

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• If you think you can't, you're right.

  Carol Bartz

  Inspirational, Positive, Smart

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• I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

  Jimmy Dean

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change
  themselves.

  Jim Rohn

  People, You Can't Change People, Can't Change People

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• Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

  Byron Katie

  Sister, Daughter, Brother

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• Ignore reality, there's nothing you can do about it.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Sister, Letting Go, Brother

  Song: Don't You Think?, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• I cannot change others, but I can influence others... we can't change people, but we can and we do influence people, and we do it every single day.

  Gary Chapman

  People, Influence, Can't Change

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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• You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!

  David LaChapelle

  Jobs, Artist, People

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

  Brandi Carlile

  People, Momma, Can't Change

  "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.lotusguide.com

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• People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.

  Thom Andersen

  Book, People, Mind

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.

  Garrison Wynn

  People, Behavior, Can't Change

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• Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

  Norman Lear

  Thinking, Agreement, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it.

  Richard Bandler

  People, Void, Can't Change

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Political

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Mind

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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