Top 100 Change Things Quotes
#1. If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?
Ted Chiang
#2. There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.
Neil Peart
#3. When I'm really frustrated with things," she giggles " ... I like to get online and change things in Wikipedia!"
This, bitch ... is weird.
C.J. Roberts
#4. Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
Tamora Pierce
#5. One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.
Tom Robbins
#6. It never occurred to me that I couldn't change things that needed changing or couldn't have what I wanted if I worked hard enough and was good enough.
Kathleen Turner
#7. You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
Peter McWilliams
#8. I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
A.S. Byatt
#9. I think I'm actually quite a materialistic person, I value what it takes to make a car or build a nice house. Money does change things, but how it changes people depends on how they react to it.
Roland Gift
#10. The problem with putting it all on the line is that it might not work out. The problem with not putting it all on the line is that it will never (ever) change things for the better. Not much of a choice, I think.
Seth Godin
#11. But you couldn't really start over. That was a huge, modern lie invented by talk-show hosts. Sure you could change things that improved your life, but all the bad stuff lingered. It lingered in your body compromising your organs.
Elizabeth Brundage
#12. Even without being believed, magic can change things. It moves invisibly through the air, dissolving the usual ways of seeing, allowing new ways to creep in, secretly, quietly, like a stray cat sliding thought the bushes.
Janet Taylor Lisle
#13. Things change ... things happen ... things you can't even imagine when you're young and full of hope.
Judy Blume
#14. People hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.
Melina Marchetta
#15. The point of the essay is to change things.
Edward Tufte
#16. The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard
especially if a lot of people prayed at once
maybe God would change things. The trouble was, what if your enemy was praying, too? Which prayer would God listen to?
Jeanne DuPrau
#17. If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.
Walter Payton
#18. It was the teaching itself that I loved. At least, I loved it back when I thought it would be enough to change things.
Brandon Sanderson
#20. I thought coming here would change things for me, but I'm starting to worry that I've done what I always do: mistake a distraction for a chance at redemption.
Melissa DeCarlo
#21. We can't change things by wishing. Only by doing. It's our actions, Tara, not our thoughts.
Jennifer McMahon
#22. My top priority is for people to understand that they have the power to change things themselves.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#23. There are two ways to change things: Either you are forced to change or you have the intuition to change.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#24. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
Anita Roddick
#25. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better." Harry S. Truman
Shar McBee
#26. I like extremes. I like to change things up and keep from getting complacent or stale.
Mark Ruffalo
#27. The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.
Kevin Rowland
#28. Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage ... or faith ... or goodness ... you can change things for the better.
Kate Forsyth
#29. This is life. Our bodies change. Our minds change. Our hearts change. Things are always evolving. I hope we can be supportive of each other and try to really have each other's backs, especially when we don't know the whole story.
Emma Stone
#30. I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
Don Cheadle
#31. I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.
Robert Powell
#32. Life is all about making things happen, it won't happen at the say of a magic word. You have to go out there and change things.
Khali Raymond
#33. Complaining will not change things in your life; only action will. Make a list of all you need to do to change what doesn't work in your life and, little by little, begin making those changes.
Susan Jeffers
#34. People change, things go wrong. shit happens, but life goes on
Anonymous
#35. Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.
Ole Hallesby
#36. I hate it all,' I sighed, sure in my own mind that the new war would change nothing: that wars can't really change things. It's peace that makes the deepest cuts, I thought.
Gregory David Roberts
#37. I hear them saying, "You'll never change things. And no matter what you do it's still the same thing."
But it's not the world that I am changing. I do this so this world will know that it will not change me.
Garth Brooks
#38. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera. I can be behind the camera and really change things cinematically, and this is giving me an opportunity to do something behind the camera, which I really want to maximize.
Jamie Foxx
#39. When I'm really stressed emotionally, I say to myself that there's only so much I can do to change things. Life happens on life's terms. Then, I go for a run.
Kevin Griffin
#40. I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because the audience is dancing or singing with us. That's the interesting part of the live show, actually, because everything is possible and everything can change.
Rokia Traore
#41. I want to change things on my own terms, to show that there's no right or wrong way to change the world. There's no entry test. You don't need to suck anything up. Pay any dues. Just you and your anger and your voice is enough. If you only have the courage to use it.
Holly Bourne
#42. I just don't believe that you have to come in and insult people when you want to change things.
Sydney Schanberg
#43. Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
Sarah Zettel
#44. Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.
Richelle Mead
#45. A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.
Wolfgang Puck
#46. The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
Lois Wyse
#47. Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.
Dorothy Allison
#48. Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
Ice Cube
#49. I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.
Shane Smith
#50. I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.
Raymond Depardon
#51. I'm not someone who puts their money in a fund that earns 2 to 5 percent a year. I'm a man who tries to change things, move something with my money, to create jobs and, of course, at the same time earn more money with it.
Dietmar Hopp
#52. I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.
Rhonda Byrne
#53. I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
Cy Twombly
#54. I'm not a prophet. I'm a destiny-changer. It's all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you've got the power.
Sun Ra
#55. Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.
Arthur Scargill
#56. I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.
Abbie Hoffman
#57. We'd like to believe that by discussing what has occurred will change things. Until now, here's a mental illness that must be dealt with by going to the root.
Benjamin Janey
#58. We are striving to change things, lass. But changes don't occur overnight." - Mr. Wellesley
Aya Ling
#59. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.
Marisa Silver
#60. For me, directing is like writing with meat. I can write live, in real time, and change things and be confident that I'm helping the movie.
David Ayer
#61. You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.
Stanley Nelson Jr.
#62. I realized that the wonder is not that conditions are so bad, but that humanity has advanced so far in spite of them. & now I am in the fight to change things. I may be a dreamer, but dreamers are necessary to make facts!
Helen Keller
#64. By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.
Kenneth Copeland
#65. To change the way you see things is already to change things themselves.
JR
#66. The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.
Tom Peters
#67. Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?
Ilchi Lee
#68. When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.
Sheryl Sandberg
#69. I like to leave a little room to innovate and change things around while I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
#70. It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.
Deb Caletti
#71. I found being able to change things on the fly and react to the changes in the artwork makes it stronger. And I feel like I'm not doing the job twice.
David Finch
#72. When someone special walks into your life and is able to change things for the better, don't let them walk away.
Wiz Khalifa
#73. I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
Don Mattingly
#74. Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice
Drake
#75. With 'The Crazies,' we had a lot of room to play and manipulate and change things. When you get something bigger, you have less control in that sense unless you're one of the three stars.
Joe Anderson
#76. I think sharing experiences is a great thing in order to change things in society.
Sanna Lenken
#77. I am no longer going to go along with this idea that we're going to keep spending and borrowing and taking over and raising taxes, that I'm going to do everything I can to change things.
Chris Matthews
#78. What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
Bill Drayton
#79. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#80. If I can give a very substantial injection of humanistic thinking into corporations, boy, that would change things a lot.
Ruth J. Simmons
#81. I can't go back through time and change things, but I can move forward and create the life I want.
Jessica Sorensen
#82. Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.
Harriet Harman
#83. Everything is only for a day ... the universe loves nothing so much as to change things.
Marcus Aurelius
#84. Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.
Jonathan Kozol
#85. We have to do much more than believe if we really want to change things.
Dave Matthews
#86. Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make it popular. You're in a constant debate with a gun at your head, and the gun is cancellation. So it's hard to win the arguments.
Judd Apatow
#87. Do reasons matter when there's nothing that can be done to change things.
Cassandra Clare
#88. I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.
Russell Brand
#89. Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S. Truman
#90. In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.
Nicholson Baker
#91. I hate America," she said. "I thought Obama would change things, but it's still just guns, drones, Guant
Jonathan Franzen
#92. There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Susan George
#93. If you aren't happy with your life, change things until you are ... if you can't change something, change your attitude about it.
Ingrid Weir
#94. The world's changed. It's very difficult to know where to be. Because sometimes life is so fast and so absolute that the only way you can change things is by actually shifting your life utterly and totally to a different hemisphere. You can't partially change. There's no semi-revolution.
Cate Blanchett
#95. These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.
Gene Wolfe
#96. The notion of fate and destiny is a very Greek concept. Working in the theater you do think a lot about that, because as a storyteller you do think, 'At what point was this always going to happen and what part have I got a hand in being able to change things?'
Cate Blanchett
#97. Maybe all you needed in life was the belief you could change things. Somehow. Some way.
Holly Bourne
#98. In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.
Ryan Holiday
#99. There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.
Marian Wright Edelman
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