Changing The World Quotes - Page 19

• We need a critical  theory  that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries.

  Carl R Trueman

  Challenges, Needs, World

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• If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Children, World, Want

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• If you empower women, you can change the world.

  Meg Ryan

  Empowering, World, Ifs

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• There's a weighing kind of overemphasis on sexuality, which disempowers music generally, because it silences all the other voices; it makes music a very powerless force for changing the world.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Voice, Silence, World

  "INTERVIEW: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy, She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

  Sinead O'Connor

  People, Want, World

  "Interview: Sinéad O’Connor Isn’t Bossy; She’s the Boss". Interview with Sarah Toce, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2014.

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• It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.

  Bill Nye

  Dream, People, Water

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• You are not just anyone. One day, you're going to have to make a choice. You have to decide what kind of man you want to grow up to be. Whoever that man is, good character or bad, it's going to change the world.

  Jonathan Kent

  Growing Up, Character, Men

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• If you do just one thing to change the world, go organic.

  Maria Rodale

  World, One Thing, Ifs

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• Mathematicians also make terrible salesmen. Physicists can discover the same thing as a mathematician and say 'We've discovered a great new law of nature. Give us a billion dollars.' And if it doesn't change the world, then they say, 'There's an even deeper thing. Give us another billion dollars.'

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Law, Giving, Dollars

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• So far I have been speaking of theoretical science, which is an attempt to understand the world. Practical science, which is an attempt to change the world, has been important from the first, and has continually increased in importance, until it has almost ousted theoretical science from men's thoughts.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Important, World

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, Views

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• I want to keep changing the world. It's possible. The black gay lead is ready. It's time.

  Billy Porter

  Gay, Black, World

  Source: collider.com

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• If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

  Ken Wilber

  Ignorance, Numbers, World

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• The web is not going to change the world, certainly not in the next 10 years. It's going to augment the world. And once you're in this web-augmented space, you're going to see that democratization takes place.

  Steve Jobs

  Years, Space, World

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• Without love, violence will change the world; it will change it into a more violent one.

  William Sloane Coffin

  World, Violence, Violent

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• The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.

  Mardy Grothe

  Thinking, World, Young

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• In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.

  Ahmed Kathrada

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• Art changes people people change the world.

  John Butler

  Art, People, World

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• Go out there and do your part to change the world. You may not change all you had hoped but the world will be better for the caring demonstrated by your effort.

  Michael Josephson

  Caring, Effort, World

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• Children can change the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, World

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• Antonio Gramsci said that social reformers should have pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. This means that one must have the intellectual ability to see how bad things are and the emotional ability to look forward with hope. It's a hard combination to sustain, but if you can do it, you can change the world.

  Andrew Solomon

  Mean, Emotional, Should Have

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• Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself

  Rumi

  Beautiful, Wise, Clever

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• If we accept imperfect food, we can indeed change the world for the better.

  Dana Cowin

  World, Imperfect, Accepting

  "How ugly food can end hunger". Interview with Lauren Lee-Johnson, edition.cnn.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Not to say that you should be constantly trying to change the world, but I think it's important to know that whatever we do has an implication and has an effect, and because of that it is political.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Thinking, Political, Important

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Romance, Dollars, Valleys

  "Geek Cheek" by David Diamond, www.wired.com. May 1, 1996.

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