Top 100 Quotes About Trying To Change
#1. I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.
Harold Simmons
#2. I'm not trying to change you, Maggie. I'm trying to love you.
Lexi Ryan
#3. People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
Adam Shankman
#4. Trying to change yourself is as hard as trying to change the universe. Maybe there's no difference. The fact is, shit happens none of us plan on.
Tom Spanbauer
#5. They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom ... for trying to change the system from within
Leonard Cohen
#6. Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#7. That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
Lawrence Eagleburger
#8. Despite his attempts to alter his destiny - joining the worst cohort, trying to change the camp traditions, taking the least glamorous missions, and befriending the least popular kids - he had been made praetor anyway.
Rick Riordan
#9. Boro-babu, the world does not change, you destroy yourself trying to change it, but it remains as it is. The world is very big, and we are very small. Why cause people who love you to go through such misery because of it?
Neel Mukherjee
#10. Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food.
"You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.
Roald Dahl
#11. Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.
Guy Finley
#12. Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man's attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.
Neville Goddard
#13. The world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.
Italo Calvino
#15. Don't try and change me. Women always try to change men. It never works. I'm not trying to change you. I'm trying to work with you.
Lisa Scottoline
#16. They changed the press conference, they are trying to change the time of the weigh-in. They are trying to mess with me, but what they don't realize is that they are only fueling me to bring more hurt.
David Haye
#17. If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#18. My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
T-Pain
#19. It's not about trying to change the world, it's about trying not to be changed by it.
Lights Poxlietner
#20. Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
Gail Collins
#21. We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.
Miguel Ruiz
#22. Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.
William J.H. Boetcker
#23. It wasn't worth wasting your time trying to change the world; it was enough not to let the world change you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#24. Trying to change someone is easier than trying to accept them It's how we're programmed
Katie Kacvinsky
#25. As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.
Mike White
#26. So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)
Nick Bilton
#27. Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.
Beth Ditto
#28. When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others
Jane Nelsen
#29. Fear is about survival. When you drop under that and experience the fear without trying to change it, just letting it be, then it becomes still. When you open your heart to fear, rather than trying to fight it or deny it or even overcome it, then you find it is just energy.
Gangaji
#30. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don't really like them.
Miguel Ruiz
#31. I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life - whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook).
Elizabeth Gilbert
#32. I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected. I
Jodi Picoult
#33. I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing
like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies
it's better to live with that bad thing than trying to change it. Because what if you get to chance to change it and you mess up? What if it's your last chance?
Carol Goodman
#34. Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.
David Whyte
#35. My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
Beatrice Sparks
#36. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
Libba Bray
#37. Yeah. It's impossible. Giving up just like that before you even started. Not even trying to change, to you it's impossible to change. Are you going to forever beat yourself down?
Kayoru
#38. If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#39. Everyone cannot like you. Don't waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you.
Stella Oladiran
#40. By no means am I trying to change the modeling industry.
Tyra Banks
#41. I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.
Gloria Steinem
#42. I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.
Ammon Hennacy
#43. I think that facing your own ugliness ... and trying to change yourself
turning your scars into strengths ... is very strong and beautiful.
Minari Endou
#44. She's trying to change the subject, even though we weren't speaking out loud.
Colleen Hoover
#45. You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
Tom Robbins
#46. I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!
Michael Bloomberg
#47. You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.
Upton Sinclair
#48. When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.
Casey Wilson
#49. Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#50. CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.
Adora Svitak
#51. I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.
El-P
#52. The past cannot be changed, but the future is yours. Don't waste it trying to change the unchangeable.
Cristiane Serruya
#53. The big mistake I made, however, was in trying to change the system instead of just changing myself.
Leah Remini
#54. I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
Faith Evans
#55. You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.
Stanley Nelson Jr.
#56. But sometimes you can spend a lot of sorrow trying to change things for the better, when what was first was best. Its only you were too foolish to realize it.
Marisa Silver
#57. Approach your own inner life with a loving quality that accepts who you are without trying to change who you are.
Laozi
#58. I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
Chris Messina
#59. I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.
Rhonda Byrne
#60. Early in my career, people wanted to hear music about protest, about trying to change things.
Ice Cube
#61. If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.
George Strait
#62. Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.
Mark Batterson
#63. The first order of things to be changed is me, the leader. After I consider how hard it is to change myself, then I will understand the challenge of trying to change others. This is the ultimate test of leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#64. Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. Because your life is a reflection of your inner Self, causality comes exclusively in changing your own nature, not trying to change the external world out there by manipulating it.
Thomas Daniel Nehrer
#66. If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside ... that's how your temper will cool down.
Pema Chodron
#67. I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
Haile Gebrselassie
#68. I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money
Mike Tyson
#69. Changing a man was never a goal of mine, and I disliked women who fell in love with the idea of a man only to then spend the rest of their lives trying to change him to be what they wanted.
Nina Levine
#70. I'm trying to change the way people approach knowledge and information in general. I think that to try to own knowledge, to try to control whether people are allowed to use it, or to try to stop other people from sharing it, is sabotage.
Richard Stallman
#71. And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh.
Trish Stratus
#72. Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change it. Well, I'm Bob and I'm an unreasonable person. And if TED is anything, it is the olympics of unreasonable people.
Bob Geldof
#73. Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
Anita Roddick
#74. Fuck waiting for the world to change you; you start by trying to change it. And if you are pure of heart and your intentions are good, you can't lose. Even if nothing happens, you can't lose.
Ron Perlman
#75. - "How about flipping a coin;" she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around and
looked at her irritated.
- "That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and you
know damn well how painful that can be!"
Sand of Passion
Georgia Kakalopoulou
#76. If she were alive today, she would be ashamed of me. I'm trying to change that.
Eric Wilson
#77. I get 100 e-mails a day from Americans who say, 'What you're doing is cool - can we work for you?' From Germans, I also get 100 e-mails a day, saying, 'You fat pig!' or 'You're a liar and a criminal!' I'm trying to change this.
Kim Dotcom
#78. I'm trying to change the world.
Kid Cudi
#79. During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
Chris Ware
#80. I find that people who give up trying to change themselves tend to want to change other people.
Brian Ming
#81. It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.
Ron Paul
#82. When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.
Stanley Hauerwas
#83. I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people beforehand. That's why I'm a chronicler. I speak about us and I speak about myself.
Martin Parr
#84. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
Jacob M. Braude
#85. I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.
Roxane Gay
#86. Trying to change others is a smokescreen, start by changing yourself then others will copy from you.
Auliq Ice
#87. Because counseling isn't about changing someone else. It's about trying to change yourself.
Nicholas Sparks
#88. My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.
Sufjan Stevens
#89. Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.
Sanchita Pandey
#90. Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.
Anthony Liccione
#91. Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.
Lady Gaga
#92. So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
Jared Leto
#93. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.
Crystal Woods
#94. You're all murdering life ... You're all trying to change yourselves, all trying to change what is, and thus you're never actually living what is. You're killing who you are every day of your lives by not being who you are ... where you are.
Luke Rhinehart
#95. I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#96. The meal plan was hard at first because I am a snack eater, but the most challenging part is trying to change my pallet to like healthy food.
Ruby Gettinger
#97. I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real.
Ally Condie
#98. On the red carpet, I'm playing a character. As soon as I get off that thing, I think, 'Oof, wipe that gloss off.' I'm wiping and wiping and pulling my hair out and trying to change my outfit. I'm immediately trying to get comfortable. It's really a part I play.
Jessica Biel
#100. I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
Lenny Kravitz
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