Quotes About People's Ability To Change

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. If the discussion centres on the essential principle of the E.U., the free movement of people and the ability to make decisions together, in that case, we don't want treaty change.

Francois Hollande

#4. Without the ability to criticize unjust laws in powerful symbolic ways, we can't change them. And the point of a democracy is that people should be able to convince other people to change a law.

Marvin Ammori

#5. Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

LeCrae

#6. We cannot love 'our people' unless we love each of us ourselves, unless I love each piece of myself, those I wish to keep and those I wish to change - for survival is the ability to encompass difference, to encompass change without destruction.

Audre Lorde

#7. We help people to begin truly healthful diets, and it is absolutely wonderful to see, not only their success, but also their delight at their ability to break old habits and feel really healthy for a change.

Neal Barnard

#8. Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Bryant H. McGill

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community ... that's the biggest change. But without TV ... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is.

Ice Cube

#12. The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

Michael Gove

#13. Many people leave government disillusioned about its ability to achieve change and cynical about politicians. I left with rather opposite lessons.

Geoff Mulgan

#14. 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

#15. Isn't that what you really want in a jean? The ability to kick people in the face in them? I don't wanna have to go home and change into shorts ...

Jon Stewart

#16. I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

Nicolas Cage

#17. I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inches wide. What will change is the ability to get 'CSI' not only on TV but also on the Internet, even watching it in a foreign country as it's playing in the U.S.

Leslie Moonves

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

A.J. Darkholme

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Madeleine K. Albright

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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