Don't Change Quotes - Page 9

• My father urged Alan [Lomax] not to repeat the mistakes of the European folklorists who, a century ago, had collected these peasant songs and then arranged them for part choir and accompanied them on piano, and then told the young people of their country, "Don't change a note, this is our sacred heritage." Father said, whether it's a fiddle tune or a gospel song, learn it right off the record from the people who grew up with it. Don't just learn it from a piece of paper.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Song, Father

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Prayer is not a way to get what we want to happen, like the remote control that comes with the television set. I think that prayer may be less about asking for the things we are attached to than it is about relinquishing our attachments in some way. It can take us beyond fear, which is an attachment, and beyond hope, which is another form of attachment. It can help us remember the nature of the world and the nature of life, not on an intellectual level but in a deep and experiential way. When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves. We change our consciousness.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, Thinking, Attachment

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• People don't realize that, you know, we have - "we" meaning people in show business have the same problems as everybody else. Money don't change that. Fame don't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a - different kind of problems. As they say, money ain't everything.

  Dolly Parton

  Money, People, Different

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• Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Character, Drug, Want

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, People, Action

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• I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

  Stacy London

  Style, Taste, Arguing

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• My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.

  Miranda Lambert

  Mom, Want, Sticks

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• Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations among objects; they are indifferent to the replacement of objects by others as long the relations don't change. Matter is not important, only form interests them.

  Henri Poincare

  Teaching, Long, Important

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• Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Sexuality, Gender, Court

  "WNBA Star Sheryl Swoopes: I'm Gay". www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Most movie stars don't change their look at all.

  Kelly Lynch

  Stars, Looks, Don't Change

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• I ain't the type for begging, I am not the type to plead. If she don't change those evil ways, I'm gonna make her bleed.

  Frank Zappa

  Evil, Way, Violence

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• Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Ideas, People, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• You know, I feel like if I don't change something, then the results maybe are going to continue the way that they have. That for me is not something that I want to really be a part of.

  Michael Chang

  Want, Way, Results

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• If we don't change the way Washington operates we're going to bankrupt our children and grandchildren.

  David Dewhurst

  Children, Way, Don't Change

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• I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

  Anthony de Mello

  Change, Selfish, Love You

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• For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

  John Sayles

  Writing, Average, Two

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• Don't change the man. Change his environment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Environment, He Man

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• As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there.

  Zig Ziglar

  Goal, Decision, Don't Change

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.164, Pelican Publishing

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• Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

  Calista Flockhart

  Depression, Ally Mcbeal, Don't Change

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• If price spikes don't change eating habits, perhaps the combination of deforestation, pollution, climate change, starvation, heart disease and animal cruelty will gradually encourage the simple daily act of eating more plants and fewer animals.

  Mark Bittman

  Heart, Simple, Animal

  Mark Bittman (2015). “A Bone to Pick: The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more”, p.58, Clarkson Potter

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• people in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

  May Sinclair

  People, Trouble, Don't Change

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• When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, World, Praying

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• You can lose your weight, but you can't lose your personality. And people's personalities don't change.

  Ruth Marcus

  People, Personality, Weight

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Doesn't matter what language you speak or what clothes you wear. Some things don't change. Families. Friends. Lovers. They're the same in every city in every country in every continent of the world.

  Annabel Pitcher

  Country, Clothes You Wear, Cities

  Annabel Pitcher (2012). “Ketchup Clouds”, p.170, Hachette UK

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• I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Believe, Thinking, People

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