Top 100 Quotes About About Change
#1. What we need is to think strategically about development, analyzing a country's potential role in its region and the world in search of opportunities for growth. Platforms like the Global Social Business Summit can facilitate the process on bringing about change.
Muhammad Yunus
#2. A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something - and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.
Warren Berger
#3. When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.
Rush Limbaugh
#4. 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
#5. Sometimes people say that we're living in the future, and time's up for science fiction, but I think that never will be, because science fiction really isn't about the future. It's about change and present-day concerns
Stephen Baxter
#6. I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process.
Edward James Olmos
#7. Change is a journey and the journey is always about change. And if there is no change, why bother with the journey? And the best journeys require lots of space of one sort or another. So for great journeys - just open space.
Harrison Owen
#8. It is often the case that laws must change before fears about change dissipate.
Hillary Clinton
#9. I don't just talk about change. I actually have a plan to execute change and make it happen.
Mitt Romney
#10. We often say God is never late, but generally He isn't early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#11. It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.
Alvin Toffler
#12. The thing about life, about change, is there are always lessons. Some are subtle, others not, and sometimes it takes being ripped out of your comfort zone to finally get it - then it's transformative.
Lorii Myers
#14. You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese
#15. I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
Margaret Spellings
#16. Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.
Carl Rogers
#17. From the Buddhist perspective, the only lasting way to bring about change is for people themselves to change.
Pat Allwright
#18. My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
Paul Simon
#19. If we are serious about change, we have to dig - preferably with plenty of company and with a full appreciation of the fact that although we did not start the fire, it belongs to us now.
Allan G. Johnson
#20. Impatience can be very good by helping us not put up with tyranny, but it can distort our view of what is possible and how to bring about change. We have to cultivate patience so that our perception isn't distorted.
Paul Ekman
#21. On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.
Pope John Paul II
#22. Our Bodies, Ourselves is the bible for women's health
It has served as a way for women, across ethnic, racial, religious, and geographical boundaries, to start examining their health from a perspective that will bring about change.
Byllye Avery
#23. Life is about moving, it's about change. And when things stop doing that they're dead.
Twyla Tharp
#24. President Obama compared himself to Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in the struggle to bring about change. The comparison is flawed. They spent years in jail before taking political power, while politicians from Chicago do it the other way around.
Argus Hamilton
#25. Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Chip Heath
#26. Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we look at ourselves and wonder who we are and how we got that way. Only one thing about change remains constant ... it is always painful
Jodi Picoult
#27. I want us to continue to scale and grow over the coming years in education, professional development and employment to bring about change in people's lives.
David Batstone
#28. Life is all about change. We constantly transform all our life. Struggle is nothing more than a signal and confirmation of the needed changes that are ahead of us on the road of our lives
Timothy Pina
#29. As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.
Matthew Weiner
#30. ... progress isn't necessarily about change but about things turning out as we want them to
Phil Hogan
#31. There are powerful forces undermining progress in Africa. But one must never underestimate the power of the people to bring about change.
Ama Ata Aidoo
#32. Football, like life, is about change.
Hank Stram
#33. I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming.
Jason Silva
#34. We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of 'revolution'.
Tony Judt
#35. It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
Miles Davis
#36. Divorce is just about change, you know. It's God saying, You need a change. And I'm going to make it so your bank account only has change.
Christopher Titus
#37. I don't think there will ever be a time when people will stop wanting to bring about change.
Yuri Kochiyama
#38. Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.
Kristin Kreuk
#39. I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.
Al Gore
#40. To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks
#42. Switchfoot is a surfing term ... To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It's about change and movement, a different way of approaching life and music.
Jon Foreman
#43. My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.
Carol Moseley Braun
#44. Every time our government chooses to use military force to bring about change in the world, it once again teaches our children the myth of redemptive violence, the myth that violence can be an instrument for good.
Shane Claiborne
#46. The whole story is about change. We are very lucky that the earth's history is recorded in fossilized remains. And we can see the changes. Unfortunately, there will always be gaps in our knowledge, but there is no doubt that we and everything living today has evolved.
Richard Leakey
#47. The truth about change is that we tend to overestimate its speed while underestimating its reach.
Jeffrey J. Selingo
#48. I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.
John Gutfreund
#49. Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
Barbara Deming
#50. If there's one lesson I've learned, it's that life is all about change, and stress comes from avoiding change.
Brad Thor
#51. Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.
Henry Gee
#52. Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
Caroline Manzo
#53. The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.
Kevin Kelly
#54. There is a regrettable human tendency to exaggerate stability, to believe in equilibrium ... It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays same forever.
Matt Ridley
#55. Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.
Patrick Fabian
#56. I want to understand about change--I don't just want to be at the mercy of it. I feel like I'm waking up inside. I want to know about history. I have all this new information about people like me down through the ages, but I don't know anything about the ages.
Leslie Feinberg
#57. What I like most about change is that it's synonym for 'hope'. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, 'I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.
Linda Ellerbee
#59. The fact that I made a special movie with an old-fashioned style - even if it's a mix between with modern and old-fashioned things - must mean I feel both ways about change. In a way I'm resisting, but in a way adapting myself to the times.
Michel Hazanavicius
#60. Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
Yehuda Berg
#61. Asking why can be the first step to bringing about change in almost any context.
Anonymous
#62. What a liberal really wants is to bring about change that will not in any way endanger his position.
Stokely Carmichael
#63. In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt repressed or wished to bring about change or have acted out of selfish reasons, thinking that if they tore the house down they might end up with a shingle.
James E. Faust
#64. I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.
John P. Kotter
#65. Students are often the last to know about change that is occurring in their own school system.
Andy Hargreaves
#66. Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.
Jim McKay
#67. Indonesia is just treading water when we are supposed to be bringing about change
Joesoef Isak
#68. Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.
Matt Ridley
#69. To keep creating you have to be about change.
Miles Davis
#70. The reactions of others were actually another lesson she'd learned about change. When change happened to an individual, it happened to everyone around her - sometimes in ways she wished for, though sometimes in ways she wished against.
Rachel Simon
#72. New York has always been a city of change and a city about change, and it is a back-leading development. Nobody's going to want to come to New York if it looks like another strip mall.
Debbie Harry
#73. We are often at odds with our wise and loving Lord because the change he is working on is not the change we have dreamt about. We dream about change in it, while God is working in the midst of it to change us.
Timothy D. Lane
#74. Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.
Mary Quant
#75. The big "WHEN" about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.
Pearl Zhu
#76. Bringing about change in an abuser generally requires four elements: (1) consequences, (2) education, (3) confrontation, and (4) accountability.
Lundy Bancroft
#77. For me, leadership is making a difference. It's using your agency to bring about change.
Melanne Verveer
#78. The ocean, after all, is not about stability but about change. Change is normal. Everything changes. All the time.
Wendy Williams
#79. I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.
Barack Obama
#80. When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
Ofra Strauss
#81. Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.
Lesley Choyce
#82. When you look at all the miracles attributed to Jesus, they're all about change.
Michael Sheen
#83. Leadership is about change ... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
Noel Tichy
#84. Christmas is about change. It's a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.
Toni Sorenson
#85. And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
Chip Heath
#86. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
Chip Heath
#87. Vagabond Circus was about change. It moved from place to place, and reconfigured based on available performers. The ringmaster loved that about the circus. "Without change, we are dead," he often said.
Sarah Noffke
#88. I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.
Kid Rock
#89. One thing about change hasn't changed: it still fascinates some people, frightens others, and provides a good living for a prophetic minority.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#90. I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this yearning for silver bullets, and that is not in fact how change comes about. Change comes through silver buckshot - a lot of little things that achieve results. That's a classic public health approach.
Nicholas Kristof
#91. Fundamentally leadership is about change and influencing people to change.
Pearl Zhu
#92. 'Vogue' is a fashion magazine, and a fashion magazine is about change.
Anna Wintour
#94. To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
Fred Perry
#95. Creativity cannot be really regulated, but it can be encouraged. The redevelopment or revitalization of a city is an art. It depends on the individual strengths of a place and the will of the leadership to bring about change. The goal is to establish a cultural infrastructure.
Charles Landry
#96. The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.
Octavia Spencer
#97. The way I see it, the third series of 'Downton Abbey' is all about change and how each character adapts to those changes.
Michelle Dockery
#98. We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence
Charles Clarke
#99. I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step.
Melissa Rosenberg
#100. We are starting a process of decolonization in Bolivia. All this is bringing about change and we will continue.
Evo Morales
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