Can't Change Quotes - Page 9

• You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

  Michelle Moran

  Oasis, Wish, Desert

  Michelle Moran (2011). “The Egyptian Royals Collection: Three Historical Novels by Michelle Moran: Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen, and Cleopatra's Daughter”, p.151, Broadway Books

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• I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.

  Lisa Kleypas

  People, Giving, Causes

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• If you're outraged at conditions, then you can't possibly be free or happy until you devote all your time to changing them and do nothing but that. But you can't change anything if you want to hold onto a good job, a good way of life and avoid sacrifice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jobs, Sacrifice, Want

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• This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news. The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past. The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past. The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.

  Charles Yu

  Strong, Past, Worry

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.14, Vintage

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• That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, World, Revolution

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• Donʹt worry now about what you canʹt change. Rest when you can so youʹll be ready for tomorrowʹs battles

  Richelle Mead

  Worry, Battle, Tomorrow

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• I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

  Mary Alice

  Mistake, Past, Can't Change

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• Instead of agonizing about the things you can't change, why don't you try working on the things you can change

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Trying, Agonizing, Can't Change

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.105, Scholastic Inc.

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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 go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

  Alyson Noel

  Past, Destiny, Can't Change

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• You can't change the system through violence.

  Alex Cox

  Violence, Can't Change

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• I think people would be happier if they admitted things more often. In a sense we are all prisoners of some memory, or fear, or disappointment - we are all defined by something we can’t change.

  Simon Van Booy

  Memories, Disappointment, Thinking

  Simon van Booy (2013). “The Illusion of Separateness”, p.82, Oneworld Publications

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• Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

  Chuck Berry

  Rocks, Acid, Punk

  Source: archives.nbclearn.com

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• I have to make small adjustments, but I can't change too much. If I'm worrying about that stuff too much then the show isn't as funny.

  Bill Burr

  Worry, Stuff, Too Much

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

  Harold Brodkey

  Giving Up, Past, Thinking

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• The first element of change is awareness. You can’t change something unless you know it exists.

  T. Harv Eker

  Change, Knowledge, Knowing

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from May 30, 2014

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• Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

  Tim McIlrath

  Mean, Trying, Because I Can

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing. In this way boredom can act as an invitation to freedom by opening me to new options and thoughts. For example, if I can't change the activity, can I look at it more honestly?

  Hugh Prather

  Boredom, Looks, Way

  Hugh Prather (2009). “Notes to Myself: My Struggle to Become a Person”, p.34, Bantam

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• If you want the great and mighty things God has for you, you must get to the root of anger and deal with it. Get rid of the masks and face the things that happened in your life that made you the way you are today. Admit that you can't change by yourself. Until the root is removed, it'll continue to produce one bad fruit after another.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Roots, Want

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• That's life and you can't change anything, you know.

  Irina Slutskaya

  Can't Change, Knows

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• If we're going to change the game it has to start at eight, nine and 10 years old. When we were that age we'd go to the pond or backyard rink and throw a puck on the ice and play five on five, or seven on seven. You get this creativity and this imagination that comes from within, just having fun on the pond. Now kids are so focused on team play, and the coaches are so focused on positioning. You can't change it at the NHL level.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Fun, Team, Creativity

  "Wayne Gretzky on the love of his life". Interview with Jonathon Gatehouse, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• I have to get better, but I can't change the way I play.

  Adrian Beltre

  Play, Get Better, Way

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• You can't change your game based on where you're playing.

  Troy Glaus

  Games, Can't Change

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• People can look at me any way they want to. If somebody meets me and hangs out with me, they can see what kind person I am. I can't change for people.

  Sebastian Janikowski

  People, Looks, Want

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• You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.

  Larry Wall

  Past, Stories, Moments

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