Quotes About Major Changes In Life

#1. Major changes in life are just the way the universe is aligning a better future for you.

Linda Alfiori

#2. New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

Wendell Pierce

#3. Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.

Jim George

#4. He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one.

Agatha Christie

#5. I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.

Seth Rogen

#6. ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where we can tell the difference is a major milestone in the simplification process.

Elaine St. James

#7. I realized how truly inexperienced and foolish I really was, a small-town girl attempting to play in the major leagues with a man who was larger than life itself.

C.L. Parker

#8. What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.

Anne Roiphe

#9. There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

Ashley Bryan

#10. Growth can also involve producing services instead of goods. In particular, a major expansion of public and caring services (like child care, education, elder care, and other life-affirming programs) would generate huge increases in GDP and incomes, with virtually no impact on the environment.

Jim Stanford

#11. Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.

Sheryl Crow

#12. Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insi

Hans F. Sennholz

#13. When I signed that major-label contract when I was 20 years old. I did it because I wanted to play music for the rest of my life. That's every 20-year-old's dream - to do whatever the hell you want.

Billie Joe Armstrong

#14. You are willing to risk your career and very probably your life for a woman you knew only three days. What kind of woman is worth that?
The only kind worth having, Major.

Donna Thorland

#15. I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.

Trick Daddy

#16. In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.

Eric Foner

#17. Remaining focus is the key to success. You cannot be successful if you are focusing on everyone else

Shanet Outing

#18. We seem obsessed with motivation, rallying ourselves to something beyond the life available to us right now, and we treat this motivation as if it were a major part of the history of wisdom, which it is not.

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#19. Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

Katherine Helmond

#20. I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!

Stjepan Sejic

#21. Pride will keep us from teachability and will keep us from getting where we want to go. Pride is a major hindrance to everything good in your life because, as we are about to see, pride breeds presumption, and presumption kills teachability.

Matt Keller

#22. My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.

Stephen Jay Gould

#23. Neglect is a major reason for some of the most painful experiences we suffer in life.

Sunday Adelaja

#24. Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Linda Barnes

#25. I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.

Bailey Chase

#26. One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

Graham Greene

#27. 'Yogi Bear' changed my life in ways that I can't explain because it's not a full feature on me. 'Yogi Bear' - there's everything before 'Yogi Bear,' and there's everything after 'Yogi Bear.' Like a major car accident, or the birth of Christ.

T. J. Miller

#28. the major accomplishment of her life was producing two children who seemed to like each other even when no one else was looking,

Emma Straub

#29. The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

Tiger Woods

#30. One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

John Ruskin

#31. Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

James Broughton

#32. Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

Philipp Meyer

#33. Here's the first major lesson: Writing is not an activity. It's not something you sit down at the keyboard, and just start doing. That's called 'typing.' Typing is an activity ... Writing is a process. And if you start thinking of it as a process, life gets so much easier.

Jeff Bollow

#34. Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have never seen. Now that I am a hundred years old (this September) it still takes me to the outside world I can no longer visit.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#35. Life is too short for any man to hold bitterness in his heart.

Major Taylor

#36. Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.

Brian Tracy

#37. And so, this was the final major theme we found: that when a group of people, no matter how small or ordinary, was willing to die out to their selfish desires, the life which came out of that death was immeasurable, and continued to affect lives far into the future.

Peter Marshall

#38. The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God

Sunday Adelaja

#39. Vanity Fair has but two major articles in its editorial creed: first, to believe in the progress and promise of American life, and, second, to chronicle that progress cheerfully, truthfully, and entertainingly.

Frank Crowninshield

#40. Anyone whose major concern is the sanctity of human life is in effect, by leaving population growth unchecked, ensuring death by famine. Nature is pitiless, and if humans will not themselves limit population then they will have it done for them.

Christopher Hitchens

#41. The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough.

Mark Edmundson

#42. I believe it's true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.

Ralph Metzner

#43. Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society. If one were to project the democratic way of life in the form of a musical score, its major theme would be the harmony of dissonance.

Saul D. Alinsky

#44. The thing about living in the 21st century is you can get to fortysomething and not have anyone major in your life die.

Douglas Coupland

#45. But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

Deb Caletti

#46. Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience.

Nicholas Proffitt

#47. Time utilization and effectiveness is a major marker for success

Sunday Adelaja

#48. Ben Says: As long as you have the breath of life ... You have the power to make major changes to improve your life. Now the question is ... what are you going to do with it?

Timothy Pina

#49. Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.

Matthew Quick

#50. It's strange how I have felt, with every major event that has occurred in my life, that you were the only person who would understand.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#51. As I looked at material and spiritual poverty in the world around me, including approximately 2 billion people who haven't even heard the gospel, I knew that I needed to make some major changes in my life.

David Platt

#52. Placing Raffaela in the path of an oncoming car becomes one of the major priorities of the next ten seconds of my life.

Melina Marchetta

#53. I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.

Susane Colasanti

#54. These guys are tough, this world is crazy and the wind here is crazy strong! However if I want a normal life for once I have to try harder! Angel - From Revenge of the Gloobas. Coming soon!

Angel Ramon Medina

#55. Most people's major life regrets are not about the things they've done, but about the things they've not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they'd been but know they failed to be.

Thom Hartmann

#56. The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#57. When you have a major loss in your life, the first thing you need to do is tell God exactly how you feel.

Rick Warren

#58. When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.

Ray Bradbury

#59. Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it.

Jim Rohn

#60. I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.

John Major

#61. The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles ... these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

M. Scott Peck

#62. But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

Bernice Weissbourd

#63. I knew Chloe LOVED to read, but I was in the middle of a MAJOR life crisis! For once, couldn't she just try focusing on ME instead of her stupid book characters?! Then

Rachel Renee Russell

#64. I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

Jake Epstein

#65. My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.

Bob Ainsworth

#66. The foundation for our self-image is grounded in the first three years of life. It comes from our major caretaker's mirroring.

John Bradshaw

#67. Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success: It became so successful at prolonging life, that it becomes financially unsustainable, unless you make major changes to things like retirement ages.

Niall Ferguson

#68. Sex, sexual dynamics and how we define our sexuality, is one of the major deals in everyone's life.

Molly Parker

#69. People in business generally have a responsibility to the community. They have to put back into the community from which they take. I think I've adopted that all through my life. Caring and sharing are two major fundamentals of life.

Lindsay Fox

#70. Indeed, of the major religions, Islam offers no discernible sliver of valid notion for How Life Works.

Thomas Daniel Nehrer

#71. Snapchat really has to do with the way photographs have changed. Historically, photos have always been used to save really important memories: major life moments. But today ... pictures are being used for talking.

Evan Spiegel

#72. Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

#73. You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.

Rob Liano

#74. People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.

James Taylor

#75. I can't point to any major episodes of sexual discrimination in my early life. But I was so aware of the crime, the shame that there was no use of my mother's ability and energy.

Betty Friedan

#76. My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nnamdi Azikiwe

#77. We are interested in what we love.
We love what we are interested in.
What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us.
And the way this interest and love unveils is one of the major mysteries of life.

Franco Santoro

#78. I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

Neal Stephenson

#79. One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them.

Tony Evans

#80. Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.

Elona Washington

#81. Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.

Sylvia Earle

#82. The careful choice of words, the scrubbing of language, the calculated images we presented to the external audiences - those were all major parts of my daily life over there. So, some of that is going to seep over into what I showed in the novel and - more importantly - how I showed it.

Dave Abrams

#83. You don't have to change that much for it to make a great deal of difference. A few simple disciplines can have a major impact on how your life works out in the next 90 days, let alone in the next 12 months or the next 3 years.

Jim Rohn

#84. Horrible events in life serve as catalysts for major changes in our life perspective and as teaching tools for helping others.

Dannion Brinkley

#85. While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change.

Nicholas Sparks

#86. I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.

Peter James

#87. Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor

Sunday Adelaja

#88. Fathering is a major job, but I need both things in my life: my job to be a director, and my kids to direct me.

Steven Spielberg

#89. After a major change in your life, either you get stuck in painful emotions or you take charge of your life and process your feelings to become emotionally stronger and resilient, the choice is yours.

Linda Alfiori

#90. So there I was, feeling like the luckiest girl on earth. To be buried alive in such a majestic coffin! MAJOR life goal achieved!!!!

Rob Reger

#91. I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.

Julius Erving

#92. It struck me tonight how music mirrors life. Fleeting ephemeral moments, made up of beauty, sadness, joy, hope and despair. Melodies which are written in both major and minor keys. Flowing and fleeting. You can't hold onto it, or keep it from changing. Our emotions possess the evanescence of a note.

Virginia Burges

#93. In Eleven Minutes, I started with the question of why sexuality is considered one of the major issues in life.

Paulo Coelho

#94. We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.

Olive Schreiner

#95. Will you bring life to your dream or will you allow it to die of neglect? It is absolutely true that you have a divine summons to fulfill, but it's not automatic and it's not guaranteed. You are the major player who must give yourself fully to the process of becoming.

T.D. Jakes

#96. No one should be allowed to work in the West Wing of the White House who has not suffered a major disappointment in life... the responsibility of working there was too great... to be entrusted to people who weren't painfully aware of how badly things can go wrong.

Charles Murray

#97. Etiquette enables you to resolve conflict without just trading insults. Without etiquette, the irritations in modern life are so abrasive that you see people turning to the law to regulate everyday behavior. This frightens me; it's a major inroad on our basic freedoms.

Judith Martin

#98. Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

George Burns

#99. The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.

Lisa Bonet

#100. The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.

Nikolai A. Berdyaev