Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
David Letterman (1947 - )
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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.
From "Taxi"
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
Suzanne Necker (1739 - 1794)
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
Doctor Who
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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
Bret Harte (1836 - 1902)
Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.
E. Joseph Cossman
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
Doug Larson
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), The Black Cottage
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis, Over the Hedge, 05-09-04
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Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Peter Borden
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
R. D. Laing
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Seth MacFarlane, The Family Guy
I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but I still keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris
Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.
Christina Baldwin
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James (1842 - 1910)
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
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For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.
Ingrid Bengis
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
Miriam Beard
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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
King Whitney Jr.
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Even God cannot change the past.
Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC)
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon, M.D.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.
Lynn Hall, Where Have All the Tigers Gone?, 1989
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
H. L. Hunt
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly true in the case of professors or intellectuals, who are full of fascinating information, but need encouragement before they'll divulge it.
Joyce Carol Oates (1938 - )
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Hugh White (1773 - 1840)
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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
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Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Harrison Ford (1942 - ), quoted by Garry Jenkins in 'Harrison Ford: Imperfect Hero'
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987), The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
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A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Our children change us... whether they live or not.
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Affirmations are like prescriptions for certain aspects of yourself you want to change.
Jerry Frankhauser
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
Peter McWilliams, Life 101
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken
All appears to change when we change.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou (1928 - )
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
Sylvia Plath (1932 - 1963)
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.
Annie Lennox
Miracles: You do not have to look for them. They are there, 24-7, beaming like radio waves all around you. Put up the antenna, turn up the volume - snap... crackle... this just in, every person you talk to is a chance to change the world...
Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, May 6, 2003
One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison, O Magazine, January 2004
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max Frisch
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
Doris Lessing, O Magazine, October 2003
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.
Alvin Toffler
The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.
Dan Millman
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.
Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.
Samahria Lyte Kaufman
Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Maybe it's easier to like someone else's life, and live vicariously through it, than take some responsiblity to change our lives into lives we might like.
Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
In a progressive country change is constant; ...change... is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
Your idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours alone. The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing. The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea. The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 2, 08-22-04
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
Part of understanding the creative urge is understanding that it's primal. Wanting to change the world is not a noble calling, it's a primal calling.
Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
Women and men have to fight together to change society - and both will benefit... Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.
Muriel Fox
There is only one you... Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!
Charles Swindoll
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Ann Richards
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Ann Richards
You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it.
Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.
Dr. Ana M Guzman
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
Bill Hicks
I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.
Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall (1934 - )
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair–the sense that you can never completely put on the page what’s in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.
Stephen King (1947 - ), On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, 2000
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One's life is not as fixed as one believes. Surprises may lie in store for you, the unexpected often tends to happen, sometimes bringing in its train the most delightful change in one's life or circumstances.
Elizabeth Aston, The Darcy Connection, 2008
Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know: the ones you love are always in your heart and if you're very lucky, a plane ride away.
Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Grief is Newark. It's there. Can't avoid it. The idea is to hold your nose, hope the traffic's not too bad and get on to Manhattan as quickly as possible.
Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
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We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.
Eli Attie, House M.D., Dying Changes Everything, 2008
That's the thing about being a former fat camp champ: when asked if I'd change my past if I could, I always answer no. The pain of being an overweight kid, the humiliation, make you think twice before ever cutting anyone else down.
Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.
Lady Gaga (1986 - ), BBC Breakfast, 04-21-09
Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it, and that is how it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Nobody's journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It's just life's way of saying, "Time to change course."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.
Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.
Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968)
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Kneeling over a trickling mountain stream and pumping every ounce of water you use though a filter can really change your perception of turning on a faucet.
Eric Voorhis, Camping Earth, Backcountry Camping Can Be A Stressful Pursuit, 03-02-12
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No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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'If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The talent should speak for itself.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Whenever I’d try to talk myself out of going for a walk, and there were a few days like that, I’d take myself through a series of simple tasks so I would get up and go.
1. Get up.
2. Find your house keys.
3. Put on some shoes.
4. Grab your iPod.
5. Walk out the front door.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If you can’t take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If you’re not eating the right foods in the right amounts, all the exercise in the world won’t combat the caloric intake.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The important message I heard about working out and what I want to share is that you create your own opportunities and your own limitations.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Permanent weight loss doesn’t come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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You have to want weight-loss success so badly that no mountain, river, or ocean could keep you from reaching your goals. If you have that drive, passion, and commitment, there is no way you won’t get there.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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When someone wants to lose weight, they will do whatever it takes. They can’t do it for anyone else but themselves. It has to be for them alone. Without that understanding, they will fail.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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We can’t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I am completely in charge of the choices I make about what I am doing to lose weight and get healthy. And you know what? We all have this power. Don’t be angry with me for something good I’ve done for myself. Be angry with yourself for not having the courage to do the same in your own life.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- More quotations on: [Jealousy]
If you’re... asking yourself why I have this success and you don’t, don’t be angry with me—stop and ask yourself what your issues are that are holding you back.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Don’t be afraid of the answers. Be afraid of not asking the questions.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
If you can break down those walls you’ve spent so many years building to protect yourself, you can achieve anything.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Most people see themselves a certain way their entire lives. When they go through a massive change, such as losing weight, they have to learn to see themselves in a new way. It is one of the biggest struggles her members deal with on their journey.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Appearance can always be changed, but the talent stays the same.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.
Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Grief does not change you, it reveals you.
John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.
Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.
Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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I couldn’t kill myself, couldn’t let go like so many others had. I wonder if in their last moments they’d changed their minds, but there was no boulder to grab on to.
Suzanne Young, The Program. 2013
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Exercise is medicine. Literally. Just like a pill, it reliably changes brain function by altering the activity of key brain chemicals and hormones.
Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
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Medication isn’t the only way to correct brain abnormalities in depression. Physical exercise also brings about profound changes in the brain—changes that rival those seen with the most potent antidepressant medications.
Stephen S. Ilardi PhD, The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs, 2009
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We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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When you understand that your feelings are triggered by what you think about an event and not by the event itself, you gain a measure of control. Although you cannot control the things (events) that happen to you, or change your feelings (after all, you feel the way you feel), you can change your thoughts. A change in thoughts often radically alters your feelings.
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Any time and energy you spend hating and being angry at your ex will ultimately take a toll on you without effecting any positive changes in your ex or your relationship.
Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jessamyn West (1902 - 1984)
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
Sidney Madwed
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Hugh Prather
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996), 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
Popularity? It is glory's small change.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
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The minds of the everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
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You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
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A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments,
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,
Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,--
Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Richard III", Act 1 scene 1
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Charlton Ogburn, "Merrill's Marauders", Harpers Magazine, January 1957
I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.
Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), An Acceptable Time
All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Slaughterhouse V
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971), in a sermon in 1943
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
Dean Gordon Brown
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Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), 1966 speech
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
James A. Forude
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We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Langer (1895 - 1985)
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
Quintilian
Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.
Cleobulus
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1970)
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They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), Analects
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, Edinburgh (1867)
Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Rasselas
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Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.
Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
What is it about possessing things? Why do we feel the need to own what we love, and why do we become jerks when we do? We've all been there-- you want something, to possess it. By possessing something you lose it. You finally win the girl of your dreams, the first thing you do is change her. The little things she does with her hair, the way she wears her clothes or the way she chews her gum. Pretty soon what you like, what you changed, what you don't like, blends together like a watercolor in the rain.
Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992
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I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.
Avril Lavigne
We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.
Stephen Covey
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "To Ramona"
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
R. D. Laing
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
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But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
John Adams (1735 - 1826)
It just seem like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world... Music has been so much more.
Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be.
Jessica Alba
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If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.
Dan Millman, The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
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Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?
Bible, Jeremiah xiii. 23.
The most useless are those who never change through the years.
James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
Amy Tan (1952 - )
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou (1928 - )
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
Henry Beston, Northern Farm
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We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
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Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but of what men believe happened.
Gerald White Johnson, American Heroes and Hero-Worships, Chapter 1
I never set out to write a book to change women's lives, to change history. It's like, 'Who, me?' Yes, me. I did it. And I'm not that different from other women. ... Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
If you write a post and put it on a blog, that's a historical document. If you change your template, then that entry looks completely different. It's the same words, but not the same meaning. This all depends on what historical questions that people will be asking and we can't know what they will want.
Josh Greenberg, Digital Preservation and Blogs, SXSW 2006
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Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), The line he used to lure John Sculley as Apple's CEO
Other things may change us, but we start and end with family.
Anthony Brandt
I think the Internet is uniquely suited to this free market idea: that everyone on the Internet that exchanges the traffic back and forth, big or small, we all need each other.
Pete Ashdown, Utah Geek Dinner Speech, 08-22-06
The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.
Tupac Shakur
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
Alice Walker (1944 - ), Democracy Now Feb. 13, 2006
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is neccessary.
Margaret Cousins
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx (1818 - 1883), Thesis 11
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of Affirmation address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995), Speech to the Consultive Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, January 23, 1967
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There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), Congressional Record, April 15, 1942
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It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
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This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), A Farewell to Arms, 1929
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The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.
Edward Noyes Westscott
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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.
Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.
Gary Lee Phillips
We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Nothing endures but change.
Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC)
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Change is good, but dollars are better.
Anonymous
The public interest is best served by the free exchange of ideas.
Judge John Kane, US District Court
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Each man takes care that his neighbor shall not cheat him. But a day comes when he begins to care that he does not cheat his neighbor. Then all goes well -- he has changed his market-cart into a chariot of the sun.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Don't fear change, embrace it.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
Confucius Analects
The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
German proverb
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Change is scientific, progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
If we don't change our direction we're likely to end up where we're headed.
Chinese Proverb
Nothing's ever really changed. What difference does it make whether it's the Corporate state or the Nation state? In our struggle for freedom we still find ourselves fighting the state.
Jay Terpstra
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Marilyn Ferguson
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination.
John Schaar, futurist
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world: indeed it's the only thing that ever has!
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
Jassamyn West
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.
Shunryu Suzuki
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Quotations by Subject: Change (23 quotes)
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Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
Eric Lustbader, The Kaisho
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.
Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo DaVinci, Notebooks (c. 1500)
Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
Will Smith
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993), The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did.
Unknown
I prepared excitedly for my departure, as if this journey had a mysterious significance. I had decided to change my mode of life. "'til now," I told myself, "you have only seen the shadow and been well content with it; now, I am going to lead you into the substance."
Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Change should be a friend. It should happen by plan, not by accident.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:
The primary purpose of the Data statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable Pi can be given that value with a Data statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
Fortran manual for Xerox Computers
There are, however, people in this world who seldom pick up a newspaper, people who, when watching television, sneer in displeasure and change channels at the first glimpse of an anchorperson. While such willfully uninformed citizens are rare, emerging from seclusion only to serve on juries in trials of great national significance, they do exist.
Joe Keenan
Can machines have souls? You ask me that and I ask you if souls can learn. If they can't -- then of what importance is this concept? Sterile and empty and unchangeable for eternity. How much more preferable it is to understand that we create ourselves. Slowly and painfully, shaped basically by our genes, modified steadily by everything we see and hear and attempt to understand. That is the reality and that is how we function, learn and develop.
Harry Harrison and Marvin Minsky, The Turing Option
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Lewis Grizzard
One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ...
Anthony Chevins
I'm not apt to be getting married in the near future and my lifestyle isn't apt to dramatically change as a result of any new relationship.
Hugh Hefner, Playboy Interview - January 1974
Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
Maggie Roche
Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.
Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), describing his first skydive
Money is always there, but the pockets change.
Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
Religions change; beer and wine remain.
Hervey Allen
Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Men make history, and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Robert Quillen
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Unknown
What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.
Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior.
Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.
Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD), Metamorphoses
Results from Poor Man's College:
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
Earl of Roscommon
Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.
Sidney Madwed
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
Clarence Day
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Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
Thaddeus Golas
I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me.
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one.
James Burgh
Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.
Salter
Prayer doesn't change things. It changes people and they change things.
Author Unknown
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
In the late 19th century Evanston, Illinois, nicknamed "Heavenston" by Frances Willard, was a Methodist-minded town, so pious that the town fathers, resenting the dissipating influence of the soda fountain, passed an ordinance forbidding the sale of ice cream sodas on Sunday. Some ingenious confectioners, obeying the law, served ice cream with syrup but no soda. This sodaless soda was the Sunday soda, and became so popular that orders for "Sundays" crossed the counter everyday of the week. When objection was raised to christening the dish after the Sabbath, the spelling was changed to Sundae, and so developed one of America's most characteristic dishes.
William Lyon Phelps
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Nature is the most thrifty thing in the world; she never wastes anything; she undergoes change, but there is no annihilation, the essence remains - matter is eternal.
Horace Binney
Results from Poor Man's College:
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.
Quintilian
I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture.
Sidney Madwed
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
Non Judgment: In our world where it seems we are taught to judge everything all around and about us and we spend so much of our time doing just that, it might be wise to ask if we can judge anything. To judge anything with any degree of clarity and accuracy we would need all the information past, present and future and how it will affect all concerned to make a perfect judgment. Since no one has that skill, ability or information, you might agree, it may be unwise to judge. This idea may be hard to accept, but when you look back over your life and the judgments you made, ask yourself. How many of your judgments, when you made them, were you perfectly sure they were correct, would you want to change now with the benefit of 20
20 hindsight? Since every judgment is only an opinion based on the limited information at hand, filtered through one's personal value system, it might be safe to assume no two people will judge anything exactly the same. Even concepts of right and wrong, good or bad, good or bad morals and ethics are only opinions, for what may be good in one case may be a disaster in another.
Sidney Madwed
People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.
Author Unknown
All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Author Unknown
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Richard Clark
When I was a small boy I was always being told by others, especially grown ups, to behave, to be good. It never occurred to me that I was always behaving in some manner. But I didn't have the awareness or skill to ask those grown ups what they meant when they told me to behave and to be good. Now I realize that all they wanted was for me to conform to their idea of what was good and not to do what they called bad behavior, which they sometimes changed at will. Even today people are still telling me how I should behave, but now I ask what they mean and sometimes it drives them up a wall.
Sidney Madwed
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager
Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.
John Oliver Hobbes
In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
Madame Swetchine
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Alvin Toffler
Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.
Author Unknown
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