Quotes About Ability To Change

#1. The thing that bound us together at Apple was the ability to make things that were going to change the world. That was very important.

Steve Jobs

#2. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Jodi Picoult

#4. It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

James O'Shaughnessy

#5. The technique of tredding the success path is making a single step, and if you are kinda afraid to throw the second leg, hire divinity to pull you along.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#6. I have the ability to create and be in touch with God. I can't change bread and wine into body and blood, but I can take the scum or the slime of the earth and make it into a man or woman.

J. F. Powers

#7. 10 Keys To Success:
Focus
Perseverance
Ability to adapt
Diplomacy
Flexibility
Open to change
Make no excuses
Complain little
Personal responsibility
Faith

Charles F. Glassman

#8. A level 4 leader's greatest asset is his ability to engage, empower, and equip his people; this is what creates the momentum for a significant change in the organization. He invests 80% in his people and 20% in the process.

Farshad Asl

#9. It's for us to take care of the air we breathe and the water we drink. And I do believe we have an impact on that, and we do have the ability to change it if we make the decision to.

Scott Kelly

#10. Some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

Joan Didion

#11. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.

Lauren Mackler

#12. I think every person has the ability to affect change ... through our every thought our every word, the way that we interact with other people. We are constantly affecting the world.

Adam Yauch

#13. After all, everything in here is just pieces of paper with words and lines on them. They're not even very valuable.
Pieces of paper with words and lines on them have the ability to change the world ... They always have.

Elizabeth Camden

#14. Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. But I am also hopeful, because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to remake themselves for the better.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#15. I am not a believer of the law of attraction (though I do not deny the possibilities of it to be true), but I firmly believe in the ability of making choices, the ability to take conscious decisions.

Namrata Kumari

#16. Some people have the innate ability to cheat artfully during dating, interview... Once they're in, they completely change and become different that they leave you wonder whether you have ever met them before.

Assegid Habtewold

#17. The Obama administration rarely demonstrated the ability to shift gears and change policy in its first year. Even in the face of historic events such as the continuing demonstrations against Iran's regime, it stuck devotedly to prior plans.

Elliott Abrams

#18. The ability to identify someone at a moment's notice by snapping a photo of him or her, to trigger an immediate influx of data about the person behind the face, will forever change the world.

Jan Chipchase

#19. What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Madeleine K. Albright

#20. It wasn't as if the flowers themselves held within them the ability to bring an abstract definition into physical reality. Instead, it seemed that ... expecting change, and the very belief in the possibility instigated a transformation.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#21. Agile processes guarantee change and your ability to make these changes depends on your application's design.

Sandi Metz

#22. 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

#23. To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act ... It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

Sharon Salzberg

#24. [Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.

Newt Gingrich

#25. The most powerful thing in life...is our thinking, which has ability to change any situation."

Shashank Rayal

Sterna Kruger

#26. I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#27. You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.

Hal Elrod

#28. I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.

Kathleen Norris

#29. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

Seymour Simon

#30. 2 + 2 equal 4... so far I don't think it will change to 5 or 6, it's near to fact, but the probability of the ability... equals not a fact!

Deyth Banger

#31. Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill.

Stephen Hawking

#32. You can change your life, because you have an unlimited ability to think and talk about what you love, and so you have an unlimited ability to bring everything good in life to you.

Rhonda Byrne

#33. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.

Barbara Pym

#34. Power is the ability to make change.

Geneva Overholser

#35. Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

Peter Senge

#36. I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Seth Godin

#37. True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history.

Barack Obama

#38. Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Gordon Brown

#39. I think music has the ability to inspire people and to change hearts, and the heart has the power to change the mind, and the mind has the power to change the world.

Serj Tankian

#40. Your ability to navigate and tolerate change and its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness and general well-being. See what I just did there? I saved you thousands of dollars on self-help books. If you can surf your life rather than plant your feet, you will be happier.

Amy Poehler

#41. Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.

Victoria Justice

#42. Great leadership involves three things. The ability to realize when you are wrong, a willingness to learn from it, and an eagerness to change course if necessary.

Jeffrey Fry

#43. An individual's state of consciousness (awareness) simply means his ability to accept change in his life. It includes new thoughts and new feelings, and the new behavior and actions that will naturally come as a result.

Harold Klemp

#44. The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

Michael Porter

#45. Reality rarely changes; only our perspective of it. The means to change our surroundings depends on our own ability to shift perspectives.

Chip St. Clair

#46. Indeed, if there is any one "secret" to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change - a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.

James C. Collins

#47. The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

A.J. Darkholme

#48. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.

Toni Sorenson

#49. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea

Bruce Budden

#50. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Henry Steele Commager

#51. Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Tory Burch

#52. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.

Charles Eames

#53. Don't just be able; always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change.

Israelmore Ayivor

#54. It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.

Chuck Klosterman

#55. The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.

Mo Udall

#56. But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall. They hold in their creases the ability to change one's life, organically, forever. Even when you shake them out, they've left permanent wrinkles in the fabric of your soul.

Julie Gregory

#57. In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.

George W. Bush

#58. I am a traditionalist, and I'm an innovator. Most of what I do is to weigh change and legislate to the best of my ability on what should change and what should not. Do I have a respect for tradition? Of course I do. Do I have a blind belief in it? No.

Judith Martin

#59. Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

Rene Dubos

#60. Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

Nancy Duarte

#61. What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.

Antony Beevor

#62. Resistance to change is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.

Sukant Ratnakar

#63. Albert Einstein said, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

John Englander

#64. The author says one of the sources of resilience is the ability to measure and perceive early warning signs so as to adapt.

Andrew Zolli

#65. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen Covey

#66. We don't ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.

Barack Obama

#67. Art has the ability to change minds. Passion is what changes the world. When both collide, it's as powerful as a bomb. Art isn't pretty and poised fluff. Art is brutal and snarling. Artists growl. This is the roar of change that beats within them. - 8/29/11

A.H. Scott

#68. The biggest barrier to dealing with climate change is us: our own attachment to habits that are hard to shift, and our great ability to park or ignore uncomfortable choices.

Geoff Mulgan

#69. The vast majority of Gen Y are lucky; we have been raised to handle, even embrace change, It's something we srive for, and something that we feel we have the ability to create ourselves. We might not always suceed in creating the change we seek; but we're committed to continue trying.

Charlie Caruso

#70. We choose how we'll look at things. We retain the ability to inject perspective into a situation. We can't change the obstacles themselves - that part of the equation is set - but the power of perspective can change how the obstacles appear.

Ryan Holiday

#71. Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.

Eric Schmidt

#72. Let today be the day you are no longer intimidated by the monumental size of the change you want, but instead be empowered by your ability to make that change one step at a time.

Steve Maraboli

#73. Change is the only constant in life. Ones ability to adapt to those changes will determine your success in life.

Benjamin Franklin

#74. I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

Jessica Jackley

#75. Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world; but to change ourselves.

Mahatma Gandhi

#76. I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

Leslie Moonves

#77. Over the years he began displaying that rarest of intellectual gifts - the ability and willingness to change his mind and do it in an orderly, well-reasoned way.

Pat Conroy

#78. Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?

Michelle Madow

#79. Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Ann Landers

#80. After Mengistu consolidated his power in 1978, his personality gradually began to change. His ability to listen and his patience faded away. We could now see these qualities were pretences only; he had been putting on his best behavior in his bid for support.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#81. Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change ... agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.

Jim Highsmith

#82. Each of us has the ability to act powerfully for change; together we can restore that ancient and sustaining harmony.

David Suzuki

#83. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.

Erica Jong

#84. The whole future, I think, of Wyoming and the economy has to do with coal and our clean coal technology, and we're going to have the ability here in Wyoming to deal with all of the things of this so-called climate change.

John Barrasso

#85. Like the word hope, we often think of power as negative. It's not. The best definition of power comes from Martin Luther King Jr. He described power as the ability to effect change.

Brene Brown

#86. The test, surely, of a creed is not the ability of those who accept it to announce their faith; its test is its ability to change their behavior in the ordinary round of daily life. Judged by that test, I know no religion that has a moral claim upon the allegiance of men.

Harold Laski

#87. The lion's share of the problems that really bother us don't call for additional technology, theory, philosophy, or data (we're up to our necks in that); instead, the problems call for the ability to change what people do. And when it comes to this particular skill, demand far exceeds supply. Given

Kerry Patterson

#88. Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.

Bryant McGill

#89. I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nicolas Cage

#90. Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

Alison Gopnik

#91. She looked down at the boy and knew her ability to love was not dead. It simply needed a reason to live.

Bette Lee Crosby

#92. The immensity of the universe didn't suddenly change, but our ability to see and understand this truth changed dramatically. And with that greater light, mankind was introduced to glorious vistas we had never before imagined.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#93. Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts ...

Jon Stewart

#94. 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

#95. Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the problems that would create meaningful social change.

Mitch Kapor

#96. I like storytelling, and for storytelling you need a drama. And for there to be drama, you need twists, and by twists I mean the ability to constantly change the trajectory of the story.

Asghar Farhadi

#97. A frequent change of role, and of the lighter sort - especially such as one does not like forcing one's self to use the very utmost of his ability in the performance of - is the training requisite for a mastery of the actor's art.

Edwin Booth

#98. For the ability to answer three simple questions: 'what to change?', 'what to change to?', and 'how to cause the change?' Basically what we are asking for is the most fundamental abilities one would expect from a manager.

Eliyahu M. Goldratt

#99. When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best to leave great footprints no matter what!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#100. Creativity is not merely about cute pictures drawn by kindergartners. It is about the ability to create new enterprises, organizations, and institutions that fundamentally change society.

Michael Strong