Change Is Important Quotes

#1. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.

Nick Cave

#2. I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones.

Peter Sarsgaard

#3. Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

Brene Brown

#4. [Fighting Climate Change] is important for every single person on the planet, which is why it has to be the greatest grassroots movement of all time. This is the battle of our lives. We're fighting for our children.

Emma Thompson

#5. Change is important, but if you can't really change it, just keep calm, understand the situation and go through it with a good heart! Time will surely speak with time!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Jaron Lanier

#7. No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

#8. You're more responsible ethically for being there with your interconnection to the world, but the you now is an always changing one, and you're responsible for how you change it. It's very important to understand that whole thing about the ego.

Robert Thurman

#9. It is important to remember all true change begins at the margins and moves toward the center. This does not make the climate change movement marginal, it makes it muscular, organic, with a true movement toward the center.

Terry Tempest Williams

#10. Breathing will change your life! Breathing is the most important thing you will ever do.

Dean Williams

#11. Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and its a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like
or to the developed world, to people like
in the United States.

George W. Bush

#12. Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana.

Barack Obama

#13. My goal was to have as many of the primary sources as I could made available for people to look at and understand. Climate change is probably the most important thing that's ever happened, and yet people's understanding of it and its history remains a little fuzzy.

Bill McKibben

#14. I think it's important for people to be aware of the impact that climate change is having on this huge community of people.

Scarlett Johansson

#15. If you ever get started on the right path to change, there is one important precondition you have to meet. You must rid yourself of that gnawing and overpowering sense of urgency and panic that always seems to appear on the scene.

Phillip C. McGraw

#16. The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.

Rachael Bermingham

#17. I think that most of us can identify with the change that happens to Bruce Banner. We all have a little of both inside us. I think this is an important theme in defining the character.

Herb Trimpe

#18. The most important driver of user satisfaction is usefulness, which is largely reflected in the interaction design. The interaction design has to be incorporated at the deepest level of the software architecture and it is often the most expensive to change late in the process.

Arnie Lund

#19. Your mind is right now filled with old thoughts. Not only old thoughts, but mostly someone else's old thoughts. It's important now, it's time now, to change your mind about some things. This is what evolution is all about.

Neale Donald Walsch

#20. Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain't, and it's important that you can tell the difference.

Steven J. Carroll

#21. Players know that they can trust me which is really important. They know that I had the ability to adapt to change, and they have seen that many times over the years. I think these are important parts of being in control of footballers.

Alex Ferguson

#22. It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Margaret Cho

#23. We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck one rainforest then move, drain one area of resources and move onto another, but climate change is global.

David Attenborough

#24. A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#25. what you're saying is, to be with you, I have to prove you're important enough to me to change everything about me.

Kristen Ashley

#26. What the voters told us in the 2010 election was that they wanted a change. And I believe a moderate approach with a dedication to working across the aisle, something I know is important to both me and Congressman Shuler, is the best way forward.

Joe Donnelly

#27. The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a "pyramid" in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a "body", where each member of society has a place, is respected and is important.

Jean Vanier

#28. Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Jim Rohn

#29. One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Don Marquis

#30. As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#31. I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!

Jane Goodall

#32. To make change sustain, the important thing is "end-to-end" performance.

Pearl Zhu

#33. I think it is important for people to understand that there are real serious economic costs and real serious economic damages associated with inaction on climate change.

Naomi Oreskes

#34. It is important always to have really original talent. There are lots of good designers that make attractive clothes and make women look beautiful. But at the same time, one doesn't want to lose the idea that there is someone out there who can change the way you look at fashion.

Anna Wintour

#35. What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

Pat Conroy

#36. In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost.

Guy Finley

#37. Concentrate your narrative energy on the point of change. This is especially important for historical fiction. When your character is new to a place, or things alter around them, that's the point to step back and fill in the details of their world.

Hilary Mantel

#38. This is perhaps one of the most important things I learned during this investigation: We see what we believe, and not just the contrary; and to change what we see, it is sometimes necessary to change what we believe.

Jeremy Narby

#39. There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

Oliver Kahn

#40. The final product in a play is not just the written word. It's the production, the performance. The script is, of course, a very important piece; but it's only one element. Ultimately, yours is one of several voices. People can change your work in a play for better or worse.

Jesse Kellerman

#41. It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.

Arthur H. Vandenberg

#42. Kit, you say your mother hasn't changed, but she has. A hundred times she's changed. It's important to know with adults, thought there is continual development, there is not always improvement. There is change, but not necessarily growth.

Dave Eggers

#43. So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.

Monica Lewinsky

#44. Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

James E. Faust

#45. Dangerous climate change ... It's important not to be alarmist but it is very important to be alarmed

David Miliband

#46. This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.

Ed Miliband

#47. We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.

Miguel Serrano

#48. TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

Pat Mitchell

#49. No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.

Jack Welch

#50. Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world,

Brian Chesky

#51. The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.

Jack Germond

#52. Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world.
His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we're operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.

Joe Rogan

#53. I've been in a bad accident on I-95, as well as my friend. Having this kind of organization is important so that change can occur. I'll be around whenever they need me.

Jeremy Miller

#54. The Avalanche," peacemaker Rachel recites, "is very important. It's a privilege to sing it. It's a celebration of our past." Everybody around the table smiles at her.
"Yeah? Well, I've seen how easily the past can get rewritten." I glare at Mr. Oamaru. "Lyrics change. New authors come along.

Karen Russell

#55. If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.

Deepak Chopra

#56. Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

David Quammen

#57. I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

LL Cool J

#58. It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

James Bovard

#59. Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.

Fernando Torres

#60. Curiosity is the single most important attribute with which humans are born. More than a simple desire to discover or know things, curiosity is a powerful tool, like a scalpel or a searchlight. Curiosity changes us. It is also a way to effect change, perhaps even on a global level.

Loren Rhoads

#61. The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Hillary Clinton

#62. The world is broken he said, how will you fix it?

I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy.

Nikki Rowe

#63. As important as it is to change the light bulbs, its more important to change the laws

Al Gore

#64. A lot of people have said that I'm super-snarky and mean. But honesty is the only way to get people to change. It's very important to be constructively critical - give people alternatives and you're giving them a new way to see themselves.

Stacy London

#65. It is hard to grow up in a society in which one's important problems are treated as nonexistent. It is impossible to belong to it, it is hard to fight to change it.

Paul Goodman

#66. It is not important who you are; what is important is what you have done to change humanity for the better.

Debasish Mridha

#67. I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication ... Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going,"Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting ... Which is more important, the present or the future?"

Jerry Seinfeld

#68. Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I've never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I've seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.

Scott Adams

#69. I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

Edmund Hillary

#70. Business is the most important institution on the planet for furthering human flourishing.

Paul Gibbons

#71. There are people, even today, who thought and still think that it is all simply a matter of the left taking power in France, that with a change in the economic conditions the black question will disappear. I think that the economic question is important, but it is not the only thing.

Aime Cesaire

#72. If you're going to change the food system, there is a lot that you, the consumer, can do on your own; but in the end, it will be very important to make changes at the national level.

Michael Pollan

#73. This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.

Jim Cooper

#74. The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Aristotle.

#75. It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

Charlie Crist

#76. The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Frank Herbert

#77. It's the pressing on toward the goal that is important, not simply trying to look perfect or be perfect. And it's also important to forget what is behind us, because we cannot change our pasts. We can, however, look forward and fix our eyes on Jesus as we listen to His direction.

Michelle Anthony

#78. [Hillary Clinton] isinsatiably curious, she's a natural leader, she's a good organiser, and she's the best darn change maker I ever met in my entire life. This is a really important point for you to take out of this convention.

William J. Clinton

#79. Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no matter how important it seems, really cause a ripple in the greater scheme of things?

Joan D. Vinge

#80. There is no problem about changing the course of history - the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

Anonymous

#81. I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it." People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.

Donald Glover

#82. The most important thing that a change in physical perspective can do is to prompt a change in mental perspective

Anonymous

#83. The important point there is that when people talk about a mean temperature rise of say two, three or four degrees that's a sort of global average which really is a signature of large scale change in climatic patterns.

Martin Rees

#84. For me it's more important that I outline all the facets of a controversial issue and let the reader make up his or her mind. I don't care if readers change their minds, but I would like readers to ask themselves why their opinion is what it is.

Jodi Picoult

#85. As a change agent it is important to value all discussions, the good ones and the bad ones. Because, when people criticize what you're doing, it means they care about the topic.

Jurgen Appelo

#86. All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#87. Keep your eye on the prize and focus on your mission. Remember what you're trying to do, what your value is, why it's important, and at the same time, change course and direction. If the market's telling you different things how are you going to adjust to that?

Steve Case

#88. I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

Avril Lavigne

#89. It's important to remember that peace, liberty and freedom changes many aspects in our thoughts as far as life is concerned.

Auliq Ice

#90. The important task of government, you see, is to keep conditions stable, to hold down disturbances and unrest, to maintain itself, and the best way to do that is to give everybody the opportunity to do what they want - except change things.

James Edwin Gunn

#91. You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer.

Paulo Coelho

#92. Among the songs I love best were those that I see as historically important, and helped change and develop my taste.

Seymour Stein

#93. The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.

Jesse Robredo

#94. The only time to take the step towards change is now. Even if they're baby steps, start today! Consistency is important because you must make time to work on your goals. Even if there is little you can do, you must!

Hrithik Roshan

#95. It is important to note that everything in the business is converging with technology. The more you can understand how that convergence is happening, and the more you can steward that change into your organization, then the more you'll be sought after as that strategic partner.

Stephen Gillett

#96. In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

Herbert Spencer

#97. Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we have to change.

Erica Jong

#98. It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.

Auliq Ice

#99. It is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

James C. Collins

#100. History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

Humberto Maturana