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We all have to expand our capabilities to encompass the changing world, its growing diversity and, indeed, its complexity.
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
If you're gonna make a change, you're gonna have to operate from a new belief that says life happens not to me but for me.
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does.
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
We're a nation of laws, but the good thing about America, is that laws reside in the people and people can change the laws.
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
If there is no transformation inside of us, all the structural change in the world will have no impact on our institutions.
God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.
I don't make changes to confuse anyone. I'm just searching. That's what causes me to change. I'm just searching for myself.
We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Sometimes we spend more time than we should defending the old thing, instead of working to take advantage of the new thing.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
The love of wicked men converts to fear; That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see. Perception, belief, action, and change are codependent.
Men cannot improve a society by setting fire to it: they must seek out its old virtues, and bring them back into the light.
Climate change, if unchecked, is an urgent threat to health, food supplies, biodiversity, and livelihoods across the globe.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.
There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.
I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Change, not habit, is what gets most of us down; habit is the stabilizer of human society, change accounts for its progress.
We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.
The middle class in America is at a tipping point. It will not last another generation if we don't boldly change course now.
The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.
You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.
I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
Education is the key solution for change, for peace, and for help in the fight against racism and discrimination in general.
Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change.
In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.
Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.
If you don't pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes and the first thing you know the periphery is the center.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!