Top 100 Quotes About Ability To Change
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#5. [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
#6. The most powerful thing in life...is our thinking, which has ability to change any situation."
Shashank Rayal
Sterna Kruger
#7. You have the ability to change or create anything in your life, starting now.
Hal Elrod
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.
Michael Porter
#12. The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.
A.J. Darkholme
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
Mo Udall
#16. 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
#17. Albert Einstein said, "The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
John Englander
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Amazon has well passed any expectations of its ability to change distribution and marketing.
Eric Schmidt
#21. Do you believe that we have the ability to change destiny?
Michelle Madow
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. To all of the young people out there who are creating social change or even fomenting social movements: hold on to your idealism and your belief in your ability to change the world. Your lofty goals demand attention and deserve support.
Lynn Schusterman
#26. I fail to see what difference it makes whether it be supernatural or not
so long as it is malefic, possesses great powers and life span and has the ability to change its shape at will.
Roger Zelazny
#27. I think there are families that are very kind and supportive of people's ability to change. People who come from such families may go through life without dipping into the dark night.
Sam Keen
#28. For what do you hunger, Lord?" Moneo ventured.
"For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?"
"You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.
Frank Herbert
#29. Our only security is our ability to change.
John Lilly
#30. Success is the ability to change some one's perception of life.
Zeeshan Raza
#31. With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped in bronze. Each victory added another coat.
Garry Kasparov
#32. There is a real sense of anger among many people who are married that the government, any government, thinks it has the ability to change the definition of an institution like marriage.
Philip Hammond
#33. There's something really powerful about groups and shared experiences. People might be skeptical about their ability to change if they're by themselves, but a group will convince them to suspend disbelief. A community creates belief.
Charles Duhigg
#34. Occult powers, on the other hand, are much wider-ranging. They involve the ability to change dimensional structures and the evolutionary path of sentient beings.
Frederick Lenz
#35. They should never be used together in a sentence, because they speak of something that's beyond your ability to change. A waste of energy. What's
Harper Bliss
#36. That is all God wants from us! To be happy. Go, create, laugh, love, and above all, be happy! No matter what anyone tells you, you have the ability to change your world! Make it a great place to live in! God loves you! Exactly the way that you are!
Kenneth Griffin Jr.
#37. When you feel scared, hold someone's hand and look into their eyes. And when you feel brave, do the same thing. You are all here because you are smart. And you are brave. And if you add kindness and the ability to change a tire, you almost make up the perfect person.
Amy Poehler
#38. Science of mind teaches you how to realize how much control you have over your own life. It teaches you that we have the ability to change our lives at any point we choose.
Marla Gibbs
#39. Bowie is probably my favorite all-around songwriter and performer and personality. His ability to change over the years is such an inspiration. I love 'Young Americans' and 'Fame.'
Scott Weiland
#40. The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
Frank Herbert
#41. Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
Milan Kundera
#42. I have knowledge; I'm responsible. If I sit by and do nothing while I have the ability to change, to help, then I'm just as much a criminal as any. Power begets responsibility...You should know that.
Brandon R. Chinn
#43. Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.
Lisa Lutz
#44. Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.
Erwin McManus
#45. Science is actually, I think, a very creative venture. It requires thinking outside of the box. It requires an ability to be open to new experiences and an ability to change course in the middle, try a different path, or go about things in a new way.
Cara Santa Maria
#46. God gives us the sun and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Everyday, we try to pretend that we havent perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow.
Paulo Coelho
#47. The biggest superpower you can have is the ability to change your own life. It's in your hands, and if you believe that you can get the power you want, you can do whatever you wish to do.
Hrithik Roshan
#48. Songs need to have the ability to change and to grow for sure. They take on lives of their own. Some songs just don't have that capacity. They're locked within a period of time. And as soon as you take them out of that period of time, they die very quickly.
Nick Cave
#49. Stress is something that's created in the mind, basically. It's how we look at things. So ovr greatest defense against stress is the ability to change ovr minds; to change ovr thinking.
Goldie Hawn
#50. Post-traumatic stress is a powerful force with the ability to change us. Even the strongest of us.
Simon Wood
#51. Tenacity, in some an admirable quality, is no substitute for the ability to change, for what in one age might be considered tenacious in another would most certainly be called cowardly.
Michael Blumlein
#52. Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.
Katharine Jefferts Schori
#53. As you get older, the ability to change becomes a very rare thing. You'll see.
Andersen Prunty
#55. We may not have the ability to change all of the world's wrongs, but we can make a difference where we are.
Dillon Burroughs
#56. The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - ALBERT EINSTEIN
James Rollins
#57. Once any of us conclude- 'That's just the way I am,' we give up our ability to change.
Donald L. Hallstrom
#58. 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
#59. The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. Some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.
Joan Didion
#66. The best antidote to stress is resilience ... having the ability to respond to change or adversity proactively and resourcefully.
Lauren Mackler
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Agile processes guarantee change and your ability to make these changes depends on your application's design.
Sandi Metz
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#88. Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.
Victoria Justice
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager
#95. 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
#96. Choose Your Corner, Pick Away At It Carefully, Intensely, & To The Best Of Your Ability, & That Way, You Might change The World.
Charles Eames
#97. Don't just be able; always make sure you are available. Be present to make a change.
Israelmore Ayivor
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.
Rene Dubos
