Can't Change Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• People will often say "You can't change other people." My research shows this societal belief is not only dis-empowering, it is scientifically false.

  Michelle Gielan

  People, Empowering, Research

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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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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• When you're facing a difficult issue that you absolutely can do nothing about - I can't fly the plane; I can't change the weather - falling asleep, you'll either wake up and things will be fine or you won't.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fall, Issues, Weather

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• We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

  Albert Ellis

  Past, Thinking, People

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• Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.

  Taylor Momsen

  Past, Laughing, Enjoy

  Source: people.com

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• When a poem is really finished, you can't change anything. You can't move words around. You can't say, 'In other words, you mean.' No, that's not it. There are no other words in which you mean it. This is it.

  W. S. Merwin

  Moving, Mean, Can't Change

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. June 26, 2009.

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• If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can’t change your fingerprints. You have only ten of them. And you leave them on everything you touch; they are definitely not a secret.

  Al Franken

  Secret, Want, Fingerprints

  "Sen. Al Franken: iPhone Fingerprint Scanner Raises ‘Significant Privacy Questions’" by Gerry Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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• If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

  Josh Hartnett

  Knowing, Worry, Paper

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• I can't change you and you can't change me, but together we can work to change the world.

  Germany Kent

  Together We Can, World, Can't Change

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• [Black nationalism] is not designed to make the black man reevaluate the white man--you know him already--but to make the black man re-evaluate himself. Don't change the white man's mind; you can't change his mind. And that whole thing about appealing to the moral conscience of America--America's conscience is bankrupt.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, America

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• We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Littles, Way, Little Things

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• You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened

  Wendy Palmer

  Philosophy, Medicine, Mind

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• We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

  Erwin McManus

  Can't Change

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• When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Blessing, Space

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• Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh..apologiz e..let go of what you can't change.

  George Carlin

  Letting Go, Life Is Too Short, Perfect

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• The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one

  Edward Noyes Westcott

  Men, Mind, Can't Change

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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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• You can’t change what you haven’t realized yet. Once you realize what you were asleep to, the change happens on its own.

  Byron Katie

  Realizing, Can't Change, Happens

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2013

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• Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.

  India.Arie

  Opportunity, Today, Life Is

  Song: I Choose, 2006

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• Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.

  Brad Gilbert

  Loss, Coaching, Results

  Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.

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• They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Truth, Science, Destiny

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• You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Malcontent, Satisfied

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.131, Vintage

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• But another thing I know is this — we can’t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can’t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that’s what this election is all about.

  Barack Obama

  Maps, Want, Election

  "Obama's Remarks in Espanola, New Mexico". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 18, 2008.

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• You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Fighting, Obsolete, Method

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