Quotes About A Changing World

#1. For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

John Steinbeck

#2. I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.

Ed Speleers

#3. It still is on the run,
time that is.
Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging.
Everything's different,
and yet everything's the same.
Time is just a crazy game.

Amanda Leigh

#4. A man today has to live with the reality of today. He can no longer live with the reality of 100 years ago. The world's changing so fast. Unless you are prepared to adapt every day, then you have a problem, because the world's not stopping.

Mario Testino

#5. There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.

John Hagel III

#6. As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce ...

Jacqueline Novogratz

#7. Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.

Arthur Hailey

#8. A single collective directed thought is all it takes to change the world.

Lynne McTaggart

#9. Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

George R R Martin

#10. Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

Benjamin Spock

#11. Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving toward a set goal.

George Gaylord Simpson

#12. Having a soft major is nowhere near the career death sentence that so many make it out to be. The world is changing, and the U.S. economy with it. Our economy is shifting to a service- and information-based economy, and soft majors are already becoming more and more valuable.

Tucker Max

#13. The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine ... In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#14. In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world

Margaret Mead

#15. In a malleable world where everything from atoms to cells is changing to match our beliefs, we're limited only by the way we think of ourselves in that world.

Gregg Braden

#16. Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Gene Robinson

#17. Would you have her birched in the public square? Baited by dogs perhaps? Madam, we have destroyed her good name, and she will find the world a much colder and darker place as a result. Even now her father is probably changing her name to Buzzletrice.

Frances Hardinge

#18. The world is changing so quickly, and actors now have this huge platform of social media to interact with their audiences, but I choose not to have a social media footprint. I'm old-school like that.

Natalie Dormer

#19. I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

Jason Calacanis

#20. First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting condition, their world can fall apart.

Kate Middleton

#21. By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world ... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?

Rick Danko

#22. Philippe liked to daydream with his eyes wide open and I could often tell from looking at the changing intensity of the colours reflected there and the faintest of smiles animating his lips that he was in a world of his own that brought him great comfort in ways I could never understand

Myriam J.A. Chancy

#23. The world is changing, and I believe that, if I want to stay employed as a programmer, I'm going to have to change with it.

Kent Beck

#24. Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Mahathir Mohamad

#25. The modernists started with the assumption that science is the only source of sure knowledge, that nature is all there is, and thus that morality is merely a human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.

Charles Colson

#26. It's all a risk. Always. That's not true, actually. The only exception: it's a certainty that there's risk. The safer you play your plans for the future, the riskier it actually is. That's because the world is certainly, definitely, and more than possibly changing.

Seth Godin

#27. Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.

Kenneth Anger

#28. I started when I was 15 years old. And at that time, I was not thinking about changing the world, I was doing graffiti - writing my name everywhere, using the city as a canvas. I was going in the tunnels of Paris, on the rooftops with my friends. Each trip was an excursion, was an adventure.

JR

#29. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

Paul Bloom

#30. As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

Dana Priest

#31. Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#32. Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.

Gautama Buddha

#33. Doing more with less, is a crucial principle to learn; especially if you're going to be in business in this rapidly changing world.

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. Sometimes you plodded through life with nothing changing from one month to the next no matter how much you yearned for a revolution to erupt beneath your feet. And sometimes your whole world imploded and rebuilt itself in a matter of seconds.

Laura Kaye

#35. Death is not a changing of worlds as most imagine, as much as the walls of this world infinitely expanding.

Richard Rohr

#36. Being a part of the 'Twilight' phenomenon was life-changing; there is a whole other world of 'Twilight' fandom!

Kirsten Prout

#37. I'm certainly not ready to go changing the world overnight right now. I'm completely uninformed about a lot of our issues, a lot of the nation's issues, not just Indigenous issues.

Cathy Freeman

#38. I just think that the way the industry is changing and the world is changing, it might make more sense in two years for bands to have a different band name every time.

Penn Dayton Badgley

#39. Ciro was beginning to understand the concept of America, and it was changing his view of the world and of himself. A man could think clearly in a place that gave breadth to his dreams. There

Adriana Trigiani

#40. Some beliefs are rigid, like the body of death, impotent in a changing world. Other beliefs are pliable, like the young sapling, ever growing with the upward thrust of life.

Sophia Lyon Fahs

#41. ... books are a very recent means of expression in the broad sweep of history, capable of changing the world and toppling tyrants.

Nina George

#42. A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Ibrahim Babangida

#43. Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Steve Case

#44. Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

Edward Norton

#45. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

S. Truett Cathy

#46. In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

John Naisbitt

#47. But this world is changing. Perhaps by the time you are old enough to marry the world will hear a woman's voice. Perhaps she will not have to swear to obey in her wedding vows. Perhaps one day a woman will be allowed to both love and think.

Philippa Gregory

#48. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow ...

Ursula K. Le Guin

#49. A part, a large part, of traveling is an engagement of the ego v. the world. The world is hydra headed, as old as the rocks and as changing as the sea, enmeshed inextricably in its ways. The ego wants to arrive at places safely and on time.

Sybille Bedford

#50. Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

John Ashcroft

#51. Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

Mary Kay Ash

#52. The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.

Norman Doidge

#53. Not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#54. When you choose to be a loving person, it's magical how love comes back to you and brightens someone's day, changing your mood and that of the world.

Jason Mraz

#55. But epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity.

Steven Johnson

#56. You make this world better by changing your thoughts and by becoming better.

Debasish Mridha

#57. The world needed changing - that I knew. Global warming threatened to give us all a lethal tan; war and poverty decimated whole nations; crops worldwide were shriveling; even our brethren beasts menaced us with their monkey pox and bird flu and mad cow disease.

Jeff Deck

#58. It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

Vinod Khosla

#59. When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

Joyce Rachelle

#60. Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#61. School feeding not only fills stomachs, but has a proven track record of boosting enrollment, attendance and academic performance. For just pennies a day per child, this program changes lives - and ultimately can impact the futures of poor countries around the world in a profound way.

Drew Barrymore

#62. Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

Bell Hooks

#63. The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

K. Martin Beckner

#64. The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

Helen Keller

#65. When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.

Gates McFadden

#66. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.

Jeet Banerjee

#67. When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

Mohiro Kitoh

#68. The world doesn't keep spinning and changing seasons for us to remain DORMANT. The world continues to change because we continues to change because we continue to change and because change is a BEAUTIFUL thing.

Netiera Danise

#69. We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing ... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Daniel H. Wilson

#70. Specifically it is about how power - the capacity to get others to do, or to stop doing, something - is undergoing a historic and world-changing transformation.

Moises Naim

#71. You can't change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

Madeleine Bunting

#72. I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Taylor Hanson

#73. Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.

Lauren Bacall

#74. If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.

Josh Elliott

#75. This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated every cell of my body, changing the way I took in the world. My perceptions, opinions, everything changed the year I moved from Texas to Virginia.

Sharon E. Rainey

#76. The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.

Daniel Willey

#77. I like to write stories that read like historical fiction about great, world-changing events through the lens of a flawed protagonist.

Carol Berg

#78. Could the "killing" of Michael have been a nativistic story that a few men had promulgated to increase their status and power in a rapidly changing world?

Carl Hoffman

#79. Decisions by committee are almost always long in coming and dead wrong. A world-changing vision comes from one person, not five or or twenty or a hundred, and more often than not, the best of plans are laid to waste by the many.

Patrick Carman

#80. Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Stephen Covey

#81. Today it is imperative that any distinction or division should be overcome, because the choice between saving the world and changing it is a false one. They are intimately related, the work of redemption and the work of restoration.

Michael White

#82. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

Albert Einstein

#83. I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.

Vladimir Kramnik

#84. We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Martin O'Malley

#85. Twenty years old and this man stood ready to take on the world, all for the sake of our unborn baby.

A.B. Shepherd

#86. When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world. In one world
the world of fixed traits
success is about proving you're smart or talented. Validating yourself. In the other
the world of changing qualities
it's about stretching yourself to learn something new. Developing yourself.

Carol S. Dweck

#87. A good thing? Or a strong omen ... Only time would tell what these newfangled neutrons and fission reactions would give to our ever-changing world.In all probability,this new scientific birth would change all of our lives forever and perhaps end the brutal war we were now engaged in?

Will Leamon

#88. Art is not meant to change the world, but when you see people interacting, when you see an impact on their lives, then I guess in a smaller way, this is changing the world. So, that's what I believe in. That's why I'm into creating more and more interactions.

JR

#89. Charlotte felt a pity for her, because her world was changing, and she did not understand it; it had no place for her. She was like one of Mr. Darwin's dinosaurs, dangerous and ridiculous, beyond its time.

Anne Perry

#90. People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

Denise Mina

#91. The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it's turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur's spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown.

Austin Kleon

#92. How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

Morgan Freeman

#93. Changing the world, one exclamation point at a time.

Jon Glaser

#94. The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.

Mark McKinnon

#95. Curiosity - asking questions - isn't just a way of understanding the world. It's a way of changing it.

Brian Grazer

#96. It is a mistake to think we will get rid of anger by changing everything in the world that makes us angry. Instead we should look to change ourselves.

Dalai Lama XIV

#97. I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#98. I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.

Jane McGonigal

#99. Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

Paulo Coelho

#100. In this ever changing world, there are few things that have remained constant for me. The chance of hooking a nice trout still excites and thrills me to this day ... just as it did when I was a kid. I like that!

M.A. Bookout