Change Quotes - Page 103

I changed the past by walking back into it.

Global warming my gluteus maximus

There have been screenwriters who I'm sure would gladly kill me, because I've been very fast and loose with their work, because I felt like it wasn't up to my high standards. I would push and pull it on set, and make changes all the time. But then when you're working with an original screenplay, my theater instincts kick in, and I suddenly become very keeper-of-the-words.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

My apartment complex has a pool. I love it out here. The mountains are beautiful. It's totally different from the place I used to live. I like the heat - the only thing I would change is have the ocean, or a big body of water close by.

We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.

#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

It was never too late to undo who you had become.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.

See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.

The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

If we change in different directions, then we don't have any future anyway, do we? I think it's possible for two people to change together, to grow together and enrich instead of diminish each other. The sum of one and one, if they're the right ones, can be infinity! But so often one person drags the other down; one person wants to go up like a balloon and the other's a dead weight. I've always wondered what it would be like if both people, if a woman and a man both wanted to go up like balloons!

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It's a huge change and I've always wanted to spend time there. It's like a more intense London, and everything's up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food's better.

It has been my experience that presence is a more powerful catalyst for change than analysis.

When I came into the business, things changed a lot, and my life was in a real state of flux.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.