Quotes on Change

Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.

Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.

Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.

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

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Where educators are raising and combining their voices, the seeds of positive change have emerged. Collective voice, exercised through the union, is power - the power to drive real change for our kids, families and communities.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

We try to make buildings last long and be resilient but also be not so idiosyncratic that they can't change.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Being really good at 'learning how to learn,' as President Bill Brody of Johns Hopkins put it, will be an enormous asset in an era of rapid change and innovation, when new jobs will be phased in and old ones phased out faster than ever.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

I grew up in a family that believed that art should be used as an instrument for social change.