Quotes About How People Change

#1. It's sad how people change from the best to the beast.

Geneva Caballero Uy

#2. Was nervous about seeing him, partly because I find him less interesting now than I did when we were both nineteen (unkind of me to admit, but can't we be honest about how people change?),

Emily St. John Mandel

#3. I think the most interesting thing about any story is how people change. That's usually a struggle, because change is pretty much an uncomfortable thing.

Toni Collette

#4. I am a big proponent of character arcs that show us how people change over time.

Annalee Newitz

#5. The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Jaron Lanier

#6. No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

#7. Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

John Waters

#8. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

John Scalzi

#9. As one of Henrietta's relatives said to me, "If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that's dishonest. It's taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves." In

Rebecca Skloot

#10. The scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

Simone Elkeles

#11. I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.

Terry Zwigoff

#12. I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

Jennifer Morrison

#13. Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.

Bob Kauflin

#14. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.

Chris Cleave

#15. It occurred to her how some people continued through no design of one's own to be in one's life while others might initially enter in a sort of blaze and seem to change everything but then might not stay around.

Susan Minot

#16. But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their own lives. Far too many people still have no say in how they live.

The more power is dispersed, the more that will change.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#17. Scenes change all the time. Scenes will change while you're shooting them, and you just have to roll with it 'cause that's what makes it funny. It's not being stuck in your character and how you're gonna do something, but to react to other people and to really have a real-life conversation.

Yara Shahidi

#18. Were we all like that? Were we all trying to change how we looked on the outside to match how we felt on the inside? Were we all trying to change how people saw us?

Cecil Castellucci

#19. I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.

Frances Beinecke

#20. One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

Bell Hooks

#21. Every profession has its pitfalls. Doctors, for example, are always being asked for free medical advice, lawyers are asked for legal information, morticians are told how interesting a profession that must be and then people change the subject fast.

Neil Gaiman

#22. Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Jehane Noujaim

#23. I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

Frank Luntz

#24. Unlocking individual change starts and ends with the mental maps people carry in their heads-how they see the organization and their jobs.

Ralph Christensen

#25. People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.

Cecelia Ahern

#26. I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Alex Steffen

#27. There aren't enough people in the media creation space. There aren't enough people making premium quality programming. That's how we change the narrative. Because there is a lot of bad African programming out there, and it is not helping matters.

Mo Abudu

#28. The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

Laurence Overmire

#29. When it comes to trying to manage how our entire planet-wide market and all the people and businesses in it deal with nature and our natural resources - we first and foremost need to change the incentives.

Ramez Naam

#30. There were other sorts of Christmases besides the one he had made a habit of. And it might do him good to have a change, to see how it was with other people.

Alan Hunter

#31. The mother killing her two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we have to have change. I think people want to change and the only way you get change is to vote Republican.

Newt Gingrich

#32. Afghans think the burqa is a permanent part of culture. But, if you bring it to Europe, how would people react? Afghanistan doesn't want to change its culture, but it can change, all the time. So why are Afghans giving so much value to it? The burqa is not natural. It's not human nature.

Malina Suliman

#33. That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.

Mary Hansen

#34. You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Nicky Gumbel

#35. I urge people to get in touch with how you really feel, and don't lie to yourself. Absolutely don't. You may not necessarily be able to change something right now, but you need to know how you really feel.

Deborah King

#36. We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter F. Drucker

#37. People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

Ali Hewson

#38. Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

Sarah Dessen

#39. This nation has always struggled with how it was going to deal with poor people and people of color. Every few years you will see some great change in the way that they approach this. We've had the war on poverty that never really got into waging a real war on poverty.

Maxine Waters

#40. She wonders how much space a person has left in her soul to change herself, once she gets older. What people does she still have to meet, what will they see in her, and what will they make her see in herself? Sami

Fredrik Backman

#41. Tragedy brings change, and that's what I'm interested in most - how people plunge into change and try to fight, then eventually move with it with grace.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

#42. The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

Peter Senge

#43. I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

Johnny Ramone

#44. Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

Lebbeus Woods

#45. People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

Malcolm Gladwell

#46. People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

Ralph Smart

#47. Lauren: Like how many people you're...like how many times your life is gonna totally change and then, like, start all over again? And you'll feel like what happened before wasn't real and what's happening now is actually... (she trails off)

Annie Baker

#48. That's love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so ... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down.

Julie Anne Peters

#49. A good change leader never thinks, "Why are these people acting so badly? They must be bad people." A change leader thinks, "How can I set up a situation that brings out the good in these people?

Chip Heath

#50. What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world.

Barack Obama

#51. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.

Paul Bloom

#52. Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?

Jose Antonio Vargas

#53. One cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

Muhammad Yunus

#54. I'm more in that Rafa Nadal high-energy high-octane mold out there. I wear that emotion on the court. That's how I play my best tennis. People either like that or not. And I can't change that: that's who I am on a tennis court.

Lleyton Hewitt

#55. I know how bad Albany is. I know it better than most. I understand why people are angry. I'm angry. The question is going to be, how do you change Albany, what is the plan for change, and then how do you actually get it done?

Andrew Cuomo

#56. Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#57. Seeing people in person is a big part of how you drive any change process. You have to show people a positive view of the future and say "we can do it"

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#58. Money to some extent sometimes let you be in more interesting environments. But it can't change how many people love you or how healthy you are.

Warren Buffett

#59. I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

Piper Perabo

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#61. During the CPAC conference, Rand Paul told the crowd it was time for a new president and that people need to help make the change. Of course, most people agreed with him, since that's how term limits work.

Jimmy Fallon

#62. I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

Darius Rucker

#63. They think the government shows people everything - how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!

Anton Krotov

#64. I have thought about that very often - how the times change, and the same words that carry a good many people into the howling wilderness in one generation are irksome or meaningless in the next.

Marilynne Robinson

#65. I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.

Po Bronson

#66. It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other form of media. And it can change people's perception of each other. And that's how I think virtual reality has the potential to actually change the world.

Chris Milk

#67. I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.

James Frey

#68. 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

#69. Being popular doesn't always win spiritual change. Christ didn't pour out the coins of the moneychangers and overturn their tables with any degree of manners when he cleansed the temple. His harshness drew a point - to make people realize how much better they could become.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. It's amazing how unimpressed people are by being loved when it doesn't fit in with their plans. Love irks them so much that they change the locks or leave without warning.

Nina George

#71. It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

Douglas Coupland

#72. Money will not change how healthy you are or how many people love you.

Warren Buffett

#73. 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

#74. Church people think about how to get people into the church; kingdom people think about how to get the church into the world. Church people worry that the world might change the church; kingdom people work to see the church change the world.

Kim Hammond

#75. No matter how much you change, some people will always view you as you were at a certain time of your life.

Karina Halle

#76. It's funny how when people change, you forget the way they used to be.

Cynthia Hand

#77. The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.

Elizabeth Lesser

#78. I'm really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.

Lynn Shelton

#79. We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.

Albert Ellis

#80. People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another?

Sam Taylor

#81. I chose to document the lives of people living in a remote village in Alaska called Shishmaref because there we can literally see how climate change is affecting their homes, livelihoods and ultimately their lives.

Amy J. Berg

#82. Everythings end, people change and you don't look back. It's how gotta be.

Lauren Oliver

#83. Treating people badly in reaction to how they treat us plays into the ugliness in the world and perpetuates it. Treating people well, not in the hopes that they'll change, because sometimes people never change, keeps our hearts and minds free from the ugliness.

Kim Holden

#84. The change in rhetoric has constituted a revolution in how people view themselves and how they view the middle class, the Bourgeois Revaluation. People have become tolerant of markets and innovation.

Deirdre N. McCloskey

#85. To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.

James Arthur Ray

#86. People grow up, after all, and people's priorities change (...) It's not like things could still (be) the same, no matter how much you want them to

Cassandra Javier

#87. Like many shy people, once he began talking he seemed not to know how to stop; he lacked the social sleight of hand to change the subject, and he had no idea how to engage another person. Like a runaway vehicle, he plunged on, heedless.

Joyce Carol Oates

#88. The people who refuse to submit to God's authority will never really discover who they are and what God wants them to do. No matter how successful they may be in the eyes of the world, unless they change they will be failures in the eyes of God.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#89. Mom always told me, "People will do what they want to do-always. If you don't like how someone is acting or what they are doing, no matter how much you scream yell or cry, you won't change them unless they really want to change.

Alison Caiola

#90. How would it change the manner in which we live if we viewed ourselves as stewards of God's gifts, rather than owners of the people and things in our lives?

Anonymous

#91. I don't know if you can hear me, but I have heard you. I heard your willingness to change. Your force, your hope ... and I want to tell you how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you, people of France.

Francois Hollande

#92. My favorite songwriting trick is writing something like 'XO.' In my brain, I thought, 'This is probably going to be a love song. How can I change that and find ways to twist that.' As a songwriter, it's your job for the song to take twists and turns that people don't expect.

Kelsea Ballerini

#93. Then again, that's how quickly people's perceptions could change. It only took one mistake, one stupid decision.

Siobhan Vivian

#94. How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

Daniel H. Wilson

#95. The problem with being happy in the moment is, moments never last. Things change whether you want them to or not, which makes it only smart to keep looking ahead. That's how people avoid getting hit by cars.

Laura Peyton Roberts

#96. I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.

Jack McBrayer

#97. How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?" "Then a lot of people will be early. Or late.

Anthony Doerr

#98. Everybody is going to have an opinion on you; not everyone is going to like you. You can't live your life based on other people's opinions of you or let that change what you do or how you feel about yourself, because then you're not living.

Rumer Willis

#99. I look for businesses in which I think I can predict what they're going to look like in ten to fifteen years time. Take Wrigley's chewing gum. I don't think the internet is going to change how people chew gum.

Warren Buffett

#100. In short, it is madness. People try to manage their emotions by controlling external factors. Others let their emotions change based on what they experience outside of them. And none of it works. The truth is and has always been that you are in complete control of how you feel.

Dave Asch