Explore Quotes on Change

Words must be matched by action if change is to become lasting.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

It's tough being able to shift your mind during the years and change roles.

Russia is a very big country, so we were traveling a lot more. Turkey isn't as hard on my body, so that was a nice change.

I had been in Russia for five years and had a pretty successful run, and I just kind of wanted a change. I wanted to see different things. They're pretty equal leagues, but there was less travel involved in Turkey.

I think, before Obama, there was a glass ceiling. That's a big change. As a president, I think he was the best. I felt like I could trust his judgment, and he'd take a measured, empathetic approach. I don't see there ever being another Barack Obama.

I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not.

I have no intention of letting this decision change the way that I approach my training and preparation for games, but the time has come for me to realise that I have gone as far as I can go with this England team.

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.

I'm a native of L.A. I've seen the city change and develop over time, and I still believe there's no place like home.

I've always loved shows that combine both approaches - that have a mythology and a set of characters, whose stories develop and change, and where the relationships evolve and fracture.

As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do. It's not unexpected for me to be in a comedy film anymore; I'm no longer the underdog in that world. Not that I'm great or good at it or anything, it's just that I've done a bunch of them, so you're not shocked.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.

I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand.

I like progress but I hate change.

One has to accept that change is the only constant in our lives.

Underground, raw movies that come out of nowhere and change everything - they aren't slick-looking. But I have nothing against slick-looking as long as the scripts are funny.

The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.

The refreshing tang of lemon cake makes such a change to the deep sweetness of many bakes.

We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.