Quotes About Change

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

For me, I actually found that it would have been more frightening to take the conventional path.

America in 2016 is on the path to becoming what Germany was in 1867.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

I have come to an odd belief, which is that we don't make decisions so much as the decisions make us. The goal of a decision isn't just to find the path forward, but to become someone entirely different than who we might have been as a function of the path we take.

I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

I've always said it: God changes all the paths from morning to evening.

You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.

One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.

My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.

There were two paths I was on: pre- and post-meeting my wife. I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't have headshots until I met her.

There's no really rosy scenario ahead, where climate change just doesn't happen, but I believe we don't have the ethical right to throw our hands up in the air and say, 'Game over.' Whatever pathway we choose, our descendants will be dealing with that reality for centuries to come.

Maybe kindness is not a distraction from or orthogonal to change. Maybe it is a pathway to it.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

You can legislate behavior but you cannot legislate belief. Patience is what it takes. But patience doesn't mean sitting around on your butt waiting for something to happen.

I have no patience with dinosaurs.

It's amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I'm a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.

When generation changes,, things get outdated but then if you have talent and patience, you bounce back.

I think young people don't appreciate that when you're in your 70s, you'll lose patience for techie stuff and you may decide that you want a simple device.