Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Murray Walker

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

Milton Friedman

Only a crisis, actual or perceived, produces real change.

Milton Friedman

. . . it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored.

Milton Friedman

Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

Mike Dooley

Shhhh...right now, all around you, outside your door, down the street, and in every corner of YOUR world... there's evidence of a conspiracy. ALL THE ELEMENTS are secretly marching to the beat... of YOUR drummer... while casually pretending to be detached and indifferent...YOU ARE THAT POWERFUL.

Mike Dooley

The great thing about change, is that it absolutely, positively, always means things are going to get even better. Even when you don't know how.

H. G. Wells

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

H. G. Wells

The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

H. L. Mencken

A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic.

H. L. Mencken

Change is not progress.

Grace Hopper

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita...."Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass; and beyond there is a different country.

Georg Baselitz

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

Gene Oliver

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gary Hamel

The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be.

Gary Hamel

This extraordinary arrogance that change must start at the top is a way of guaranteeing that change will not happen in most companies.

Gary Hamel

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you're on a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Of course, there are other strategies. You can change riders. You can get a committee to study the dead horse. You can benchmark how other companies ride dead horses. You can declare that it's cheaper to feed a dead horse. You can harness several dead horses together. But after you've tried all these things, you're still going to have to dismount.

Glenn Tipton

Sadly, I've seen a lot of bands hit that sort of peak and then eventually start supporting again, you know, which we will never do. We always put a lot of thought into the way that we are going to go, and we always change.

Jessica Mitford

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we want to change existing conditions, we must first transform ourselves, which means that we must become aware of our own actions, thoughts and feelings in everyday life.

I chose to work voluntarily. Not working was not going to change (the pain). I had to make a choice to go on with my life.

Charlize Theron

I can't change the way I look nor can I sit back and let that rule my life when I know in my heart that I'm a real girl,

Dom Capers

I can't be worried about that, because we're trying to win games. They didn't play the way we expect or they expect, but Jason and Phillip will still contribute. This can change from week to week.

John Tesh

I can change a No. 1 diaper in 30 seconds and a No. 2 in a minute.

I'd love to change the story. I'd love to have him here. I can't have him here, so I wouldn't change the story for anything.

Mike Tice

I don't pay any attention, and I don't want to know about it. I've changed in that respect. I used to use it as hype. Now I just want a consistent football team.

Dale Earnhardt

I don't like the package, but we haven't found an alternative. They've changed and changed and changed over the years, and we're about out of changes as far as trying to find a happy medium of being able to get where we're not running over the top of each other but yet put on a good show.

Mark Morris

I do know that the transition is difficult for some students, but I think that it is good for growth and they need to get used to the fact that life is going to throw changes at them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'd never really considered film. If I'd thought about film more growing up, I probably would have changed my name. I had no concept of my name in lights.

Laurie David

College students can help change the world. We need them to start this issue of global warming.