Making Changes Quotes - Page 14

• Whenever we make changes in our surroundings, we can too easily shortchange ourselves, by cutting ourselves off from some of the sights and sounds, the shapes or textures, or other information from a place that have helped mold our understanding and are now necessary for us to thrive. Overdevelopment and urban sprawl can damage our own lives as much as they damage our cities and countryside.

  Tony Hiss

  Cutting, Journey, Sight

  Tony Hiss (2010). “The Experience of Place: A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Count ryside”, p.12, Vintage

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• Ask yourself what makes you come alive.

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Live Life

  "Oprah Gives Inspiring Commencement Speech to Harvard" by Derrick Bryson Taylor, www.essence.com. May, 31, 2013.

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• In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Zero, Average

  "Innovating to zero!". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2010.

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• I encourage you from the depths of my heart and being to know that you have the full capacity and the right to make changes that will enliven your awareness, raise the succulent joy in your heart, and experience the vitality that comes from living in balance.

  David Simon

  Heart, Joy, Balance

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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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• I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

  Mary J. Blige

  Fun, Men, Needs

  "Singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. November 14, 2013.

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• Changing the world is like trying to straighten a dog's tail. However much you may try, you won't succeed. But although the tail won't straighten, if you keep trying every day, at least you will put on some muscle. Similarly, even though it is difficult to make a change, our effort to do so in itself brings positive results. It will help us change. Without waiting for others to change,if we change ourselves first, that will make a difference. Instead of worrying about results, focus on doing our best in what we are engaged in.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Dog, Differences, Worry

  "Patience leads to Love". Conversation with Riitta Uosukainen, Speaker of the Finnish Parliament, October 06, 2000.

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• The roots of great innovation are never just in the technology itself. They are always in the wider historical context. They require new ways of seeing. As Einstein put it, 'The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.'

  David Brooks

  Technology, Thinking, Roots

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• Everone has a pain thermometer that goes from zero to ten. No one will make a change until they reach ten. Nine won't do it. At nine you are still afraid. Only ten will move you, and when you're there, you'll know. No one can make that decision for you.

  Vicki Myron

  Zero, Pain, Moving

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• Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

  Lorna Luft

  Force, Wanted

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• Documentary film is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I've been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves, at the situations, really facing it, and through that being able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Children, People, Looks

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• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  Harrison Ford

  Men, Lasts, Firsts

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

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

  Brian Tracy

  Choices, Today, Your Future

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 09, 2013

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• There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

  Jim Rohn

  Past, Yesterday, Giving

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• Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost.

  Michael Jackson

  Together We Can, Racism, Prejudice

  "Flashback: Michael Jackson's speech to Exeter City back in 2002" by Ronaldo Assis De Moreira, bleacherreport.com. June 26, 2009.

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• Don't make excuses! Make changes!

  Tony Gaskins

  Excuse

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2016

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• Change is the end result of all true learning.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• The real secret is to build an organization that isn't afraid to make changes while it is still successful, before change becomes imperative for survival.

  Lewis E. Platt

  Business, Real, Successful

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• The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve - and self-awareness - to make a change.

  Bret Stephens

  Self, People, President

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• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  Cameron Diaz

  Important, World, Causes

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• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

  Lady Gregory

  Children, Clothes, Growing

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1096, eBookIt.com

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• Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Life, Risk, Chance

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