Quotes About Things Changing

#1. I get bored very easily, so I love doing different things, changing, doing a job for a month and then doing another one for six months and then moving into a different group of people. I love being able to stop. That's one of the greatest benefits we have in our profession.

Jeremy Irons

#2. Only bad things happen quickly, ... Virtually all the happiness-producing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Gordon Livingston

#3. Transformations are a part of life. We are constantly being changed by things changing around us.

Suzy Kassem

#4. I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.

R. Kelly

#5. Time is only the relationship between the different things changing

Mark Haddon

#6. Stay strong. Don't worry about things you cannot change and don't worry about things changing that you cannot stop.

Peace Gypsy

#7. We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

Charles R. Morris

#8. Then he asked if I didn't like things changing. And I said I wouldn't mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Mark Haddon

#9. When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.

Ram Dass

#10. Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

Clive Owen

#11. I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

Damien Rice

#12. That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Ann Patchett

#13. Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Ikue Mori

#14. Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something.

Gregory Maguire

#15. Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Martin Seligman

#16. In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

Rei Kawakubo

#17. The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

Bell Hooks

#18. You're going back?" asked Bod. Things that had been immutable were changing. "You're really leaving? But. You're my guardian."
"I was you're guardian. But you are old enough to guard yourself. I have other things to protect.

Neil Gaiman

#19. But O, sick children of the world,
Of all the many changing things
In dreary dancing past us whirled,
To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
Words alone are certain good.

William Butler Yeats

#20. I have a strong sense of myself. That gives me a sense of security, you know? If I define myself by things that are always changing, like the public's opinion, or what I'm wearing, or what job I'm doing, there's no stability in that.

Blake Lively

#21. The question was not death; living things die. It was love. Not that we died, but that we cared wildly, then deeply, for one person out of billions. We bound ourselves to the fickle, changing, and dying as if they were rock.

Annie Dillard

#22. Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Buddy Guy

#23. By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"

Sasa Stanisic

#24. There is no single entity whose identity is changeless. All things are constantly changing. Nothing endures forever or contains a changeless element called a self.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#25. Our lives are constantly changing. Different things become relevant at different times in our lives. We are motivated by our changing sensibilities. Why can that not be applied to art?

Sarah Thornton

#26. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

Peter David

#27. You didn't choose God. He chose you. When you stop feeling hurt by everyone and plotting your comeback, he has some very important things he wants you to accomplish with your life.

Shannon L. Alder

#28. Changing things in education involves hard work, determination and an ability to swim against the tide.

Adele Devine

#29. History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things.

John H. Arnold

#30. I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Graham Hawkes

#31. Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.

Elizabeth Hawes

#32. Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

Catherynne M Valente

#33. The truth is that things change whether we want them to or not. Becoming attached to things as they are or pushing things away that we do not like does not stop them from changing. It only leads to further suffering.

Jack Kornfield

#34. By "empathy," some people mean everything that is good - compassion, kindness, warmth, love, being a mensch, changing the world - and I'm for all of those things. I'm not a monster.

Paul Bloom

#35. As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

Dana Priest

#36. Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.

Beth Pattillo

#37. I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Marian McPartland

#38. I do to keep things sounding fresh. Sometimes just changing the running order of the show is a good idea.

Mick Taylor

#39. The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,

Martina Boone

#40. I squeeze my eyes shut as though that will somehow make it go away, but I know it won't. It happened and there's no changing it. No changing any of the things that happen to us. All there is to do is move on. Starting now.

Nyrae Dawn

#41. Apple Pay is forever changing the way we pay for things.

Tim Cook

#42. Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are always changing. This is what makes history exciting - that we can always find something new in what is old.

Ambeth R. Ocampo

#43. It's funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it's that life changes, but you as a person don't or maybe we adjust, but don't actually change.

Lights

#44. It is in changing that things find purpose.

Heraclitus

#45. Married relationships are not what we are pretending they are. It is not the '40s or the 50s anymore - we cannot pretend, things are changing.

Matthew Ashford

#46. You know, how there are some people who have no time for small things? Pettiness, I mean. In the way they let things go - because whatever huge, life-changing thing happened to them gave them a perspective most of us can't ever have.

Debbie Howells

#47. (As are all living things. All are caught in the river of power that is the Force, trapped by its currents. Only those who wield the dark side of the Force are capable of changing those currents; they are riverbreakers. They do not surrender to fate. They are its foes.) The

Chuck Wendig

#48. Conversion may mean changing one's mind, overcoming prejudices, looking at things differently. Someone has remarked that conversatio means never having to say, 'But we've always done it this way.

Benet Tvedten

#49. Enlightenment does not mean getting rid of anything. It means changing one's frame of reference so that all things become enlightening.

Mark Epstein

#50. Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#51. We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

#52. I didn't even like changing clothes for gym. Being bathed by a creepy cult was not on my favorite-things-to-do-list.

Kim Liggett

#53. There are moments when things just break apart and not really for very valid reasons, either. But they just change your life and make you go in different directions.

Charlotte Rampling

#54. Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.

Alexander Volkov

#55. Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Sherry Turkle

#56. We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

S. Truett Cathy

#57. Having twin girls is a life changer - that's for sure. But I like getting up and changing diapers. It's the things you do.

Roger Federer

#58. You can indeed change the world. Every single good thing you do can change the world.

Merrilee Boyack

#59. As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

Daniel H. Wilson

#60. first changing your attitude toward all these things you now think are not what they ought to be.

Joseph Benner

#61. The sounds of a man crying is a piteous noise, almost worse than an infant's cry. Babies are either hungry, sick or bored, or need changing. This man was none of those things. He was wrapped in grief as deep as the ocean, and no one could do anything to help him.

Samantha Hayes

#62. Things are changing. Life is like that.

Amy McNamara

#63. Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.

Sharon Weil

#64. A mind that is interested in changing ... is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

John Cage

#65. I like the idea of trying to influence society by taking a brief, then maybe subtly changing it or looking at it in a new way to see what interesting things can emerge.

Richard Rogers

#66. As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

Kevin DeYoung

#67. Changing things from the top down works when things are stable.

Kevin Kelly

#68. I think we need to remember ... that a lot of energy was put into changing things to get us to the point where we are now. But being where we are now doesn't mean that we don't have to put in the same kind of energy to get us to a place where we ought to be.

Kerry James Marshall

#69. I missed you more now than I had when I lost you. I was forgetting the bad things faster than I forgot the good, and the changing ratio felt a little bit like falling in love even though I was actually speaking to you less and less.

Alexandra Kleeman

#70. By changing how you perceive things and how you act upon those perceptions, you will change your life.

Chris Prentiss

#71. The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

Randall Jarrell

#72. Forgeries are an ever-changing portrait of human desires. Each society, each generation, fakes the things it covets most

Frank Wynne

#73. The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.

K. Martin Beckner

#74. Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.

Paulo Coelho

#75. In my first film, we always tried to have a script and work in a normal way, but I was constantly changing things during shooting. Because I worked as a scriptwriter for 10 years, I understood that directors always wanted to change what was originally written, to improve on it.

Wong Kar-Wai

#76. The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#77. When I got traded to the California Angels, I really wasn't that excited about going to the Angels because it meant changing leagues and also a whole new set of teammates. But shortly after I got there I realized that it was one of the best things that ever happened to me.

Nolan Ryan

#78. There was an elegance to things back then. With everything around us changing so quickly, it doesn't hurt to have a few touchstones to the past. Reminds me what's important.

Phil Coulson

#79. There's this idea that somehow you've got to keep changing things, and as often as possible. Maybe if people just decided not to buy anything for a while, they'd get a chance to think about what they wanted; what they really liked.

Vivienne Westwood

#80. When I was young, it was very exciting to have a thought that we can change the world if we all collaborated, but I think it's not just an artist's responsibility as I think we all have responsibilities to different things, whatever we choose in our lives.

Gates McFadden

#81. I have this determination and drive to live a better life, change the world, and accomplish great things. Distractions are always there, but my purpose is so much greater that I'm always able to get back on focus.

Jeet Banerjee

#82. You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

William S. Burroughs

#83. Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing.

Oscar Wilde

#84. Things were changing, and they had been for a while. So

Nicole Jacquelyn

#85. You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

Isaac Marion

#86. If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

Umberto Eco

#87. You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.

Cory Booker

#88. You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done.

Ice Cube

#89. I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being one, just because things do take a while to evolve. Things are changing, but it's going to take time. I accept this rather than getting angry about it.

Miranda Hart

#90. It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple.
("For The Rest Of Her Life")

Cornell Woolrich

#91. To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

Jonathan Nolan

#92. Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

Michelle Obama

#93. Taste is such a changing thing. Every age our tastes change. But the things that really last aren't necessarily the best or the worst or the most loved things, but they're the things that make the biggest impression.

Chuck Palahniuk

#94. There's no better way to unplug than having children. Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Andrew Lincoln

#95. Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#96. It's not easy to change things. Things fight back.

Marty Rubin

#97. A lot of my work is about equalizing things and kind of destroying any barrier between what's high and low, or what's deep or what's shallow, complex or simple. I hope I'm ever-changing.

Dan Colen

#98. I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

Paulo Coelho

#99. If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

Jacque Fresco

#100. The internet, whether involving people or things, is simply a mechanism for transmitting information. What makes smart, connected products fundamentally different is not the internet, but the changing nature of the "things.

Anonymous