Quotes About Making Changes

#1. Making changes isn't about stopping the problem, it's about starting the solution.

Bill Crawford

#2. The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

Marvin Minsky

#3. Instead of fixing things, of making changes, of making improvements, all they'e done has been to break them in reverse.

Holly Bodger

#4. I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

Meg Tilly

#5. Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides.

David Perlmutter

#6. I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.

Al Franken

#7. Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't making changes, there's no reform,' That is hogwash. We have made a huge effort. The Greek people have made a huge effort.

George Papandreou

#8. It is unit tests that keep our code flexible, maintainable, and reusable. The reason is simple. If you have tests, you do not fear making changes to the code! Without tests every change is a possible bug.

Robert C. Martin

#9. It's not easy being so frightened of everything. And when I think of how much I've improved in the last year, I wonder when I'll ever get finished with making changes and be really grown up.

Paula Danziger

#10. Asked to give advice to a 13-year-old girl about how to lead her life, I say find something you love to do. The goal shouldn't be accumulating money. It might be making changes in the world, or in your country.

Karen DeCrow

#11. When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

#12. It's brainless to assume that making changes to your window's view will give a new perspective

Death Cab For Cutie

#13. Making changes in our lives is never easy. If you're not struggling, you're not really changing. Push through until you reach a new normal!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#14. Trying to change the outside by making changes to the outside, is like trying to make your lips red in your reflection by putting lipstick on the mirror!

Odille Rault

#15. I'm not Shakespeare. I have no delusions of who I am, as a writer. I wrote a simply beautiful script that's a fun-filled, joyous fantasy, and I was fine with making changes for the actors that made them comfortable.

Steve Antin

#16. I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

Pat Garrett

#17. The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.

Mark Waid

#18. Making changes to better appeal to customer is INNOVATION.

Peter Drucker

#19. I don't just want to ban The Bomb. I want to ban all bombs, whatever, and all bombers, whoever, and all bombings, whyever. There have to be better ways of saying no and making changes.

Aidan Chambers

#20. Stop making excuses, start making changes!

Habeeb Akande

#21. Making changes was my responsibility. Having a great guy was just a bonus.

Sylvia Day

#22. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

#23. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.

Enaka Yembe

#24. It's like live action if you reshot every scene a million times after finishing the movie. Because even apparently by the very end, a few weeks before they were screening it for the world premiere, they were making changes. That's just simply something you can't do on live action.

John Francis Daley

#25. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.

Roy Bennett

#26. Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

Alan Watts

#27. Making change tolerable is one of the duties of Government.

Margaret Thatcher

#28. Changes to parliamentary procedure won't transform the lives of the people whom I represent. Decentralising, devolving decision-making and renewing civil society will.

David Blunkett

#29. The movie industry is failing women. And until the industry starts making serious changes, nothing is going to change.

Manohla Dargis

#30. When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

Ray Davies

#31. An aspect of the work has to do with altering the literal/cultural meaning of existing public images by making minimal changes and additions. Using superimposition, juxtaposition and other contextual changes, I am functioning as a visual guerrilla.

Robert Heinecken

#32. I have enjoyed anchoring at 'Headline News' but have decided that it is time for me to make a change in my daily professional life.

Andrea Thompson

#33. A vigorous culture capable of making corrective,stabilizing changes depends heavily on its educated people, and especially upon their critical capacities and depth of understanding.

Jane Jacobs

#34. We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

Ed Markey

#35. It was a day of winter east wind, and I had now for some time entered into that dreary fellowship with the winds and their changes, so little known, so incomprehensible by the healthy. The north and east owned a terrific influence, making all pain more poignant, all sorrow sadder.

Charlotte Bronte

#36. The Stickiness Factor says that there are specific ways of making a contagious message memorable; there are relatively simple changes in the presentation and structuring of information that can make a big difference in how much of an impact it makes.

Malcolm Gladwell

#37. So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

Edward Hirsch

#38. Not being afraid to make changes is a valuable tool - knowing you can change back.

Tori Amos

#39. Make changes in your life; don't wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#40. It wasn't the same. I'm pretty good at making the best of things, but it wasn't the same.

Lois Lowry

#41. When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

Brian Eno

#42. On behalf of the newspaper industry I wish to announce some changes we're making to serve you better. When I say 'serve you better,' I mean 'increase our profits.' We newspapers are very big on profits these days. We're a business, just like any other business, except that we employ English majors.

Dave Barry

#43. The changes are part of my writing process. When I write, I imagine scenes. I write things down. I take photographs. I do some casting. I rewrite. It's a permanent making or remaking.

Pawel Pawlikowski

#44. I had to make a large number of changes to clear Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) up, it took years to figure it out. I kept on making change after change until one day I realized that EHS was no longer present.

Steven Magee

#45. The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

Ludwig Von Mises

#46. Natural capitalism is not about making sudden changes, uprooting institutions, or fomenting upheaval for a new social order. Natural capitalism is about making small, critical choices that can tip economic and social factors in positive ways.

Paul Hawken

#47. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Steve Goodier

#48. An elected government making huge changes with the consent of its people, is being undermined by concentrated powers in unregulated markets-powers which go beyond those of any individual government.

George Papandreou

#49. You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.

Daughn Gibson

#50. Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible

Monique Wittig

#51. As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed everything. And so as you get late in the project you get a little more conservative about making radical changes to the software.

Bill Gates

#52. Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

John Tukey

#53. It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#54. You are always free to choose what you do with your life. To make changes in your future, make new choices today.

Brian Tracy

#55. The future isn't so much about absorbing or tolerating change, it's about making change.

Seth Godin

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

Victoria Justice

#57. If you really want to make a change, just get up off your ass and do it.

Jody Williams

#58. A critic who uses new quotations is making important changes.

Mason Cooley

#59. We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him.

John Boehner

#60. Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.

Gloria Feldt

#61. The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same. I mean, there's still stories to be told. There are scripts that give you a good guide and insight into the film.

Howard Shore

#62. Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

Ben Parr

#63. Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

Mignon McLaughlin

#64. The challenge is for bioethicists to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where oublic policy positions wil be established-where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be addressed.

Arthur Caplan

#65. We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Guetta

#66. Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Frank Herbert

#67. Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change
without fear.

Debra Messing

#68. The more belief and confidence we feel toward achieving our goal, the higher the probability of our making the changes required to hit our targets.

Michael Hyatt

#69. It is easier to learn to interpret dreams if you have a reason to use them for something constructive. You apply your dream insights to making constructive changes in your life.

Henry Reed

#70. But leanness is a methodology, not a goal. Making small changes to things that already exist might lead you to a local maximum, but it won't help you find the global maximum.

Peter Thiel

#71. Life is boring when everything is perfect. Life is exciting and joyful when we continuously adjust and change to overcome the imperfection in life.

Debasish Mridha

#72. By learning about my body and making small, subtle changes, I find out what I enjoy and what is effective. I'm always finessing: adjusting my diet and my workouts. You have to figure out which exercises are fun and interesting and stimulate your brain - or else you'll never keep at them.

Lisa Edelstein

#73. Our goal in making these changes is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in managing the incredible growth ahead and executing our software-based services strategy.

Steve Ballmer

#74. A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living.

Roz Savage

#75. Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choice to make a difference in your life at any time you wish.

Auliq Ice

#76. Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Roger Enrico

#77. Repositioning a brand is never easy and rarely without pain. I believe the Urban brand is making the necessary changes that will allow it to more fully engage its traditional customer and return to solid profitability.

Richard Hayne

#78. You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.

Louise Hay

#79. Don't make excuses! Make changes!

Tony Gaskins

#80. Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking down a big problem into small parts in order to rigorously establish what works and what doesn't.

Matthew Syed

#81. If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.

Anita Elberse

#82. The problem with memory is that is changes whatever it touches. It is never that accurate. As a result, I end up modifying and revising my own experiences. It's myth making.

Li-Young Lee

#83. If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the profession's responsibilities.

Samuel Mockbee

#84. Nobody is in the process of making any changes that we can be specific about.

Arthur Hertzberg

#85. And I cannot read a page of anything I've written without making five changes - that's my average.

Stephenie Meyer

#86. There is nothing I love more than helping someone realize how corrupt our food system is and them making great changes in their own life because of it.

Kristin Cavallari

#87. Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

Avi Lewis

#88. When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

Michael Hirst

#89. In the end I have to hold myself accountable ... I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.

Kara Goucher

#90. Students need to be reminded that revision isn't merely making a few cosmetic changes. Revision is seeing and then reseeing our words and practicing strategies that make a difference in our writing.

Georgia Heard

#91. Society shall never make progress unless it changes its basic objective of making things easier;instead our main objective should be to make men stronger!I say "men" as women have always had and shall continue to have all the strength needed!!-Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad(Woods oration-2008)

Ashoka Jahnavi Prasad

#92. As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table.

Mary Burke

#93. When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.

Iyanla Vanzant

#94. It only takes one person to make a change ... Let it begin with you.

Joyce Thompson

#95. Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too.

Mandy Hale

#96. Knowing you need to make a change isn't enough. You've got to find the guts to do it.

Robert Kiyosaki

#97. History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

#98. Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

W.P. Kinsella

#99. Knowledge is information that changes something
or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an
individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Peter Drucker

#100. A similar criticism arose in the guise of "reflexivity," the idea that the very act of observing another person's actions changes those actions, making observational methods intrinsically flawed.

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