Effecting Change Quotes

#1. while fiction is but a form of symbolic action, a mere game of "as if," therein lies its true function and its potential for effecting change.

Ralph Ellison

#2. I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

Magic Johnson

#3. Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to use weapons to defend the nonviolent Freedom Movement.

Charles E. Cobb

#4. Raising awareness, changing the marketplace, effecting spiritual change - whatever it is that you decide is your thing, go for it.

Stone Gossard

#5. Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Albert Bandura

#6. The beauty of a relationship is when you get used to a person; it is not sudden. It is just a process, and you don't realise when love happens.

Riteish Deshmukh

#7. The power of effecting changes for the better is within ourselves, not in the favorableness of circumstances.

Helen Keller

#8. I must read.
I must read.
I must read.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#9. Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Quentin Crisp

#10. Of all the weapons the Europeans brought to the Pacific, guns included, none was more powerful and more capable of effecting lasting change than written language.

Laurence Bergreen

#11. Gandhi said the end is inherent in the means, which means you cannot create any more peace than you yourself have attained. An angry generation will not bring peace.

Marianne Williamson

#12. SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.

Joe Thornton

#14. Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming ...

George McGovern

#15. Never try to keep it professional, keep it smutty, write with bodily fluids on sandpaper, and damn the men with clipboards in white suits, the literary bean-counters, the prose police.

Peter Selgin