People Quotes

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

~ Nikki Giovanni

We don't need no more danger, we don't need no more difficulties, we don't need no more misunderstanding, and we don't need no more violence. We need the people to see each other and know of each other, feel each other, touch each other, share with each other, and change hearts with each other.

~ Burning Spear

You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don't... it's wonderful because I've met some incredible friends.

~ Imogen Poots

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

~ Tom Robbins

Most people don't want to change. They're comfortable and set in their ways. But in order to change, you have to be able to agitate people at times. And I think that's something that's very necessary for us to improve as a country.

~ Colin Kaepernick

People change, they grow.

~ Jacob Young

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

~ Eminem

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

~ John Lennon

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

~ Sting

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

~ Luc Besson

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

~ Randy Houser

When you talk about change, you know what makes it really tough for people is on the one hand you've got tradition, and on the other hand you've got change; in many people's mind, change equals modernization. Tradition, however. I'm a big tradition guy.

~ Rush Limbaugh

I think comedy is a good way to help people change their minds. I think that if you're laughing and getting a message across, it's a lot easier than when somebody is screaming in your face.

~ Maz Jobrani

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

~ Elvis Presley

When you read the New Testament, you see the Holy Spirit was supposed to change everything so that this gathering of people who call themselves Christians had this supernatural element about them.

~ Francis Chan

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

~ Stephen Hawking

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it.

~ Ben Nelson

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

~ David Hockney

People change. I wouldn't like to be accountable for the interviews I've done, or the person I was when I was 20, 21.

~ Robbie Williams

My feeling about seeing the world is that it's going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

~ Ewan Mcgregor

People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

~ Rajeev Shukla

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

~ Casey Affleck

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

~ Miriam Makeba

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

~ Doug E. Fresh

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds.

~ Frank Zappa

It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.

~ John H. Johnson

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

~ Johnny Depp

People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.

~ Temple Grandin

You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.

~ Gary Hamel

I think the NRA, they got it half-right when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' I change it to, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.'

~ Michael Moore

People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

~ Ian K. Smith

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

~ Sharon Stone

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

~ Esther Dyson

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

~ Armistead Maupin

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

~ John Galliano

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

~ Oscar Robertson

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

~ Joel Osteen

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.

~ Marc Jacobs