Change Quotes

I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.

~ Pico Iyer

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

~ Jennifer Lopez

When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.

~ Federico Fellini

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

~ Madonna Ciccone

Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions. Art can change the way we see the world. Art can create an analogy.

~ Jr

If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.

~ Nalini Nadkarni

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

~ Jeff Koons

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.

~ Antony Gormley

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

~ Emma Goldman

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

~ Barack Obama

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

~ David Attenborough

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.

~ Beau Willimon

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

~ Seth Godin

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

~ Beck

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

~ Michael Ignatieff

Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.

~ Gwen Ifill

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

~ Gloria Steinem

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

~ Paul Wellstone

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

~ Kate Millett

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

~ Joan Kirner

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

~ Ambrose Bierce

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

~ Aung San Suu Kyi

It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.

~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

~ Jane Goodall

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

~ Tony Blair

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.

~ Robert Harris

Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.

~ Mauricio Macri

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

~ Estelle Morris

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.

~ Eleanor Clift

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.

~ Plutarch

My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, 'As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.'

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

~ Paul Simon

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

~ Chuck Close

Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book.

~ Gretchen Rubin

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.

~ Alice Englert

If you're sad about what you see in the mirror when you wake up every morning, you must change it.

~ Azzedine Alaia

It's not nice to say it - I know female musicians, but not so many rappers. I can't think of one I idolize, which is sad, but I'm hoping that will change.

~ Awkwafina

I ran track in college. And that team, that all-lady team that I was on, I can remember just being so incredibly sad that I knew we were all going to leave each other after we graduated and that our lives would change. And even though I was the bridesmaid at all their weddings and stuff like that, it's just not the same, right?

~ Kay Cannon

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

~ John Gutfreund

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

~ Marc Benioff