Making Changes Quotes - Page 13

• I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

  Meg Tilly

  Waiting, Trying, Minutes

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• Now more than ever the world has to come together to make changes. Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world and the environment are evolving and that means we must change our ways as human beings as well.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Mean, Long, Together

  "Hayden Panettiere Speaks Out on Protesting Dolphin Hunt". people.com. November 2, 2007.

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• Things don't have to change the world to be important.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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

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• Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.

  Harry S. Truman

  Change, Leadership, Men

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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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• Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

  Steve Jobs

  Death, Best Job, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

  Paula Danziger

  Thinking, Years, Lasts

  Paula Danziger (2006). “There's a Bat in Bunk Five”, p.25, Penguin

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• Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Moving, Way, Life Is

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• When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.

  Andy Warhol

  Change, People, Want

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (2015). “POPism: The Warhol Sixties”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Change, Wisdom

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• Comedy is to force us to observe ourselves in ways that are humorous and yet, at the end of the day, that cause us enough discomfort with the status quo to make a change.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Humorous, The End Of The Day, Challenging The Status Quo

  "Michael Eric Dyson and 'Is Bill Cosby Right?'". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 11, 2005.

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  If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

  Ice T

  Mean, Trying, Redemption

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• You gotta make a change. Its time for us as a people to start making some changes, lets change the way we eat, lets change the way we live, and lets change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so its on us, to do what we gotta do to survive.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, People, Way

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• This is the ultimate bad-boy date, isn't it? Breaking into a different country." "Hey, it makes a change from hot-wiring cars together." "Been there, done that....Alex seriously, are you sure no one's going to shoot us?

  L.A. Weatherly

  Country, Boys, Car

  L.A. Weatherly (2011). “Angel Fire: The Angel Trilogy”, p.38, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

  Alanis Morissette

  Ifs, I Can

  Interview With Spence D., www.ign.com. June 18, 2004.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

  Caprice Crane

  Taken, People, Way

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Motivational, Success

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The president of the United States is a commander-in-chief, and the president of the United States, you know, executes the laws and tries to motivate the American public to make changes that are necessary. It's not necessarily a CEO type of position.

  Rick Santorum

  Law, Trying, President

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• As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Directors, Happenings, Ifs

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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