Change Quotes - Page 118

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.

Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain ... few people are aware of the enormity of this shift and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials.

Before this I tended to paint figures and put them in an environment. Now I paint an environment to put figures in. It's a subtle difference, but it is a difference. It's something I did naturally.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

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.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

There is nothing more certain and unchanging than uncertainty and change.

A mind that is interested in changing...is interested precisely in the things that are at extremes. I'm certainly like that. Unless we go to extremes, we won't get anywhere.

We hope President Obama will now respect the will of the people, change course, and commit to making the changes they are demanding. To the extent he is willing to do this, we are ready to work with him

What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

We must make sure their worst players get the ball the most. You'll get it back in no time.

If it's concerning immigration, do something on immigration, put your concerns on the President's actions and I'll vote on them. I'm not going to play politics and start playing around with the Homeland Security, there's no pressure that's going to change where I am.

I think it is manmade. I think it's clearly manmade.

The change we need is fixing this broken economy from the bottom up.. not tax breaks for the wealthy and huge corporations that ship U.S. jobs overseas. We need to focus on defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and restoring America's standing in the world.. not an unending commitment in Iraq.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.

For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change.

For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

My experience to date has been that change, particularly relative to business, rarely happens in a revolutionary way. That isn't to say there are not times when major change happens, but my experience is that particularly when you're encouraging businesses to change of their own volition, the change is more slow over time. I don't think global trade is going to go away. I think it's unlikely that global trade and multinationals are not going to be around.

Avant-garde is the one area of music that has never changed. It doesn't mean anything.

But there's still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that's the sense in which I believe it's still Day One, and that it's early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.

I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.