Drastic Change Quotes

• Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Believe, Despair

  William S. Burroughs (1988). “The Western Lands”, Penguin Group USA

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• In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.

  Eric Hoffer

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.

  Keri Russell

  Life, Change, Priorities

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

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• the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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• The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers

  Barbara Boxer

  Change, Country, White

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• When youre on a long running series, you reach a very rarefied, high oxygen area and after a while to keep a show on the air they have to make some very drastic changes.

  Joan Van Ark

  Running, Air, Oxygen

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had to make a drastic change at Sun Records and I didn't really appreciate country music until I went there.

  Charlie Rich

  Country, Appreciate, Records

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• Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

  Veronica Roth

  Sometimes, Drastic

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• I'm not asking any of you to make drastic changes to every single one of your recipes or to totally change the way you do business. But what I am asking is that you consider reformulating your menu in pragmatic and incremental ways to create healthier versions of the foods that we all love.

  Michelle Obama

  Asking, Recipes, Way

  Remarks by the First Lady in Address to the National Restaurant Association Meeting, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 13, 2010.

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• Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Years, Economic

  Peter Blair Henry (2013). “Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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• We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

  Eric Hoffer

  Change, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Giving, Serenity, Grace

  "Serenity Prayer". Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 1951.

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• I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

  E. J. Hughes

  Change, Cutting, Mind

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• The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are. . . . Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware . . . still clinging to things that no longer exist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Views, Names, People

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• We all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, drastic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality. To know God, you only need to renounce one thing - your sense of division from God

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Character, Ideas, Order

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.183, A&C Black

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• Nothing matters for a drastic change in Ukraine more than political transformations.

  Vladimir Putin

  Ukraine, Political, Matter

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I am a believer in change peu a` peu (little by little) since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don't stick.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Littles, Sticks, Made

  Mireille Guiliano (2009). “Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire: Business Sense & Sensibility”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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