The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

I'm not here to change the world, but I do think while you're here you should have a bit of passion about life.

You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.

Writing can't change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.

I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.

The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

I hear entrepreneurs use the word 'disruption' on a daily basis and continuously hear the cliche change the world.

We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.

I love to talk about cooking and recipes, but I love as much talking about how food and cooking can change the world.

At 30 I was not quiet enough inside myself. At 40 I was not rich enough. At 50 I was still hoping to change the world.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

I'm a massive feminist, but I think it's a little unfair on the other sex saying they're not in it to change the world.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I was the classic liberal, left-wing, 'Theater is going to change the world' kind of person. You know, very, very boring.

I'm a progressive person, very liberal. I have this thing in my head where I'm going to change the world, but with comedy.

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

I do not believe you have to be an elected official to help 'change the world.' In fact, maybe it is easier from the outside.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

If you embrace that the things that you can do are limitless, you can put your ding in the universe. You can change the world.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.

When it comes to dealing with the world's climate and energy challenges, I have a simple rule: change America, change the world.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

There is nothing quixotic or romantic in wanting to change the world. It is possible. It is the age-old vocation of all humanity.

I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

I'm a film maker, not a crusader. I know a film will not change the world. If it can make a difference to a few that's good enough.

Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

There's a world to save. Don't let anybody tell you you can't change the world. You can, and you have a moral responsibility to try.

I can't write about nice, easy topics because that won't change the world. And I do want to change the world - one reader at a time.

I was about 12 when I heard my first Lenny Bruce record. He was already dead. But it changed my life and really did change the world.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

A film is not going to change the world. But if it can do that to individuals on an individual level, I think it's a magnificent movie.

There are lots of little brown girls out there who want to do something to change the world, and all I want to do is help them get there.

There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.

Before Churchill had done anything else, he was a writer. He believed to the core that words matter. They count. They can change the world.

Politics, in general, when you're trying to change the world for the better in any kind of way, no matter how small or how big, it's inches.

We're told, 'If you want to change the world, vote.' And really, if you want to change the world, there's a lot more things that you can do.

As a young Maori actor, I don't want to be seen as a child star; I want to be seen as a serious actor and an actor who can change the world.

The Democratic Party has been my party over 50 years, where I waged my battle to change America and change the world from its progressive wing.

In your twenties, you might want to be radical and change the world, but in your thirties, you might just want to be happy and ground yourself.

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