Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Yehuda Berg

If I said it once, I'll say it again: 'We have the power to change everything.'

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Clay Shirky

There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.

Colin Hay

I don't think I'm going to change jobs at this point.

Evel Knievel

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

Elizabeth Warren

With the right sources of funding and some smart, strategic thinking about how to force non-banks to follow the same rules as other lenders, the entire landscape of consumer lending would change.

Elizabeth Warren

What I've learned is that real change is very, very hard. But I've also learned that change is possible - if you fight for it.

Adam Smith

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Abraham Cowley

s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

Abraham Maslow

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Abraham Maslow

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

We started with a box-and-one, then changed what we did every time down the floor. I don't know that it really mattered. She kind of scored when she chose to.

We've been working very closely with the neighbors and county to make sure the changes are completed on time. We are committed to honoring the commitments we made.

We've been working to change our image for the past five years.

Harvey V. Fineberg

When cultural change succeeds, it succeeds because it's so embedded in what we do that we don't have to think about.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If you want to change the world, who do you begin with, yourself or others? I believe if we begin with ourselves and do the things that we need to do and become the best person we can be, we have a much better chance of changing the world for the better.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We never know beforehand how new posts or new work will change us.

Alejandro Amenabar

I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

Alfred North Whitehead

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

Alfred North Whitehead

There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

Alfred North Whitehead

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

All things human change.

Alec Baldwin

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Shane Smith

Wednesday we saw a real change in our team. I'm excited, the kids are excited, we're all excited.

We'd like to wait and see how everything goes. There's a couple of coaching changes going on. We want to see how recruiting goes before making a decision.

Levon Kendall

We were kind of talking about it, joking around. It didn't seem like (the Big East tournament run) had much effect. It seemed like we could have lost in the first round and it wouldn't have changed much.

We were all thinking, it's her putback. (Dawn) is a winner. She's the one who made the mistake, so you can guarantee she's going to get herself back in position to change the game.

Jacque Jones

We were all concerned. A man's going to be a man, a woman's going to be a woman. You can't change what they're going to do unless they want to change. He enjoyed life, enjoyed the size he was. ... You can't do anything about it until he decides to change. Hopefully, this will be a wakeup call.

Tim Collins

We were a little surprised, The crest times can change two or three times in a day.