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I do believe in the Bible as the final word of God. And I do believe that God said the Earth would not be destroyed by a flood. Now, do I believe in climate change? In my trip to Greenland, the answer is yes. The climate is changing.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

Everybody in the world is going to know I played 20 years for the Atlanta Braves, but that doesn't change my broadcast.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

You know, Chevron - we don't do original research on climate change. It's the government's role to do that, and we accept the determinations that are there.

When we've been bold on the Bank of England, on PFI, on great constitutional change, on the New Deal, we've been most successful. So what we have to continue to try and do is to battle with ideas and find new ways of applying those values as the world changes.

I was the original moderniser in the Conservative Party, telling it, 'No change, no chance.'

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

One volcano puts out more toxic gases - one volcano - than man makes in a whole year. And when you look at this 'climate change,' and when you look at the regular climate change that we all have in the world, we have warm and we have cooling spells.

I knew that my life needed a change, but I must admit there's nothing like a good brush with death.

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition.

Any kind of change in your life creates more material for me, because I say in my act 'It ain't comedy, it's my life.'

I am often asked about the difference between 'change management' and 'change leadership,' and whether it's just a matter of semantics. These terms are not interchangeable.

Innovation is kind of a sub-piece of change.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

I'm impatient. Typically people think they know all about change and don't need help. Their approach tends to be more management-oriented than leadership-oriented. It's very frustrating.

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

Kotter International is about leading large-scale change, not just managing it.

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

Over the years I have become convinced that we learn best - and change - from hearing stories that strike a chord within us.

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around the world. I really believe we can do that.