Change Quotes

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

~ Debbie Wasserman Schultz

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

~ Isabelle Adjani

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there's somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn't unto death. That it's something you can't change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of looking at yourself.

~ Sharon Jones

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

~ Olivia Thirlby

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

~ Macklemore

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

~ Robert Kennedy

Vivek is a very supportive man. If I am in the kitchen doing something, he comes and helps. I don't think marriage will change anything for us. Our careers will not be affected after marriage. He believes in gender equality and is a man of today's time.

~ Divyanka Tripathi

Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

~ Gerry Adams

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

~ Lynn Schusterman

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

~ Elon Musk

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

~ Michael Franti

Music is gathering. Taking our scattered thoughts and senses and coalescing us back into our core. Music is powerful. The first few chords can change us where no self-help books can.

~ Jane Siberry

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

~ Kygo

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

~ Maynard Ferguson

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

~ Kid Rock

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

~ Van Morrison

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

~ Chris Kirkpatrick

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

~ Ben Bernanke

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

~ Doris Lessing

I think women should start to embrace their age. What's the alternative to getting older? You die. I can't change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.

~ Olivia Munn

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

~ Kimberly Willis Holt

The Tibetans are dirty. They wash once a year and, except for festivals, seldom change their clothes till they begin to drop off. They are healthy and hardy; even the women can carry weights of sixty pounds over the passes. They attain extreme old age; their voices are harsh and loud, and their laughter is noisy and hearty.

~ Isabella Bird

It is imperative to change the way we look at education. We should invest in the foundation of school readiness from birth to age 5.

~ James Heckman

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

~ B. F. Skinner

Middle age is when your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places.

~ E. Joseph Cossman

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

~ Alejandro Jodorowsky

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

~ J. G. Ballard

I asked all of our recruiters to give me all resumes of prospective employees with their name, gender, place of origin, and age blacked out. This simple change shocked me, because I found myself interviewing different-looking candidates - even though I was 100% convinced that I was not being biased in my resume selection process.

~ Eric Ries

One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

~ William Feather

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year in the world has stopped growing since 1990. The total number of children below 15 years of age in the world are now relatively stable around 2 billion.

~ Hans Rosling

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

~ Warren Beatty

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

~ Max Lerner

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

~ Elijah Wood

I don't know why my smile has become a signature pose. I think it's a nice change. I think people want to see happiness, so a smile is what can bring that. I didn't make it my trademark on purpose.

~ Arizona Muse

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

~ Confucius

The mission of my company is to bring three things to the world through entertainment: joy, happiness, and change. We must believe our precious time is being used to make a product worth more than anything else we could be doing.

~ Charlie Ebersol

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

~ Greg Anderson

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

~ Charles Morgan

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

~ Shah Rukh Khan