Quotes About Change

I'm not interested in making folkloric records, but I like to push the traditional format around so that familiar patterns get knocked on the head.

Most players want to follow a pattern, especially when they're doing well, and when it goes wrong, they start looking for other patterns to do.

Sashi will assume the general counsel responsibilities formerly held by Paul Vance, who is leaving the franchise after 18 years of service.

For too long, Paul LePage tried to stand in the way of getting things done in Maine.

Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever the same.

Leaving the stage would pave the way for younger players to come up too.

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.

It takes a little bit more mentally to figure out what I need to do to be most effective. The game is ever evolving. So you have to constantly pay attention to the change because you don't want to be left behind.

Like my best friend, I asked for drums for Christmas, and got them. But when he moved on to guitar, I realized two things: (1) guitar is a much more expressive instrument, (2) way more girls pay attention to guitar players than to drummers.

Any criticism, you should pay attention to. Whether you accept it and change or you take it and move on is the choice, but criticism is not a bad thing.

You just keep shining a light and hoping people will start to pay attention.

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

Acting has always been a strong force in my life, but it was hard to change direction. I didn't make a paycheck for two years.

When nobody is paying attention, anything is possible.

I left Indiana, and I ain't been back since. I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

If you ask me whether the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream, I say, 'No, it's just a down payment.'

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

In '38, this time I did a job for Mr. Stryker. I went on his payroll at about half the salary I was getting before, to cover what he called Harvest in Ohio.

It kind of pays off to try your best at every audition; you never know what can happen. You can get a hundred nos, but if you just get one yes, it can change your life.

Everyone pays lip service to this whole idea of doing more new plays, and nobody ever does it.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.