Changing Everything Quotes

• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

  Thomas Hardy

  Change, Time, Surprise

  Thomas Hardy, Joanna Cullen Brown (1990). “Let me enjoy the earth: Thomas Hardy and nature”

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  They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

  Andy Warhol

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Victory is not the absence of problems, it is the presence of power.

  Joyce Meyer

  Happiness, Happy, Forward In Life

  Joyce Meyer (1999). “Life in the Word Journal”, Harrison House

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• Everything is change; and you cannot step twice into the same river.

  Mary Renault

  Rivers, Steps, Greek Philosophy

  Mary Renault (1964). “The Last of the Wine”

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• We must become the change we want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Change, Peace

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• Improving your life doesn’t have to be about changing everything – it’s about making changes that count.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Making Changes, Improving

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• The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Reality, Stupidity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as fixed points in time We're going from 1931 to 2016 and using these shows to talk about what the typical show was like for an ensemblist at the time; did this show change anything about that job, while it was changing everything about the way theatre was written and produced and made?

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Jobs, Drama, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

  Greg Lake

  Art, Eye, Cities

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• He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm. I wondered if it was enough for both of us. I would never know from here, though. And time was passing. Crucial minutes and seconds, each one capable of changing everything.

  Sarah Dessen

  Optimism, Fearless, Enough

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

  Lucy Walker

  Believe, Responsibility, Objectivity

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• There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Giving, Romance, Faces

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• I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

  Jim Palmer

  Profound, Movement, Revolution

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Uplifting, Heart, Holiday

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth - truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations.

  Saul Alinsky

  Reality, Doe, Different

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