Quotes About Change

Women come to a time in their lives where they raise their kids, they've had their careers, their kids leave home, and they're deciding, 'Am I recommitting to my relationship? It's been a great ride. Do I want to stay here? Maybe there's something else.'

I read 'Lean In' at a really important time as I was deciding to run for office.

Decisions are for the brave, and I am the bravest, deciding to leave Barcelona and Juventus.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

Most of my actor friends don't believe it's possible to let go of it and be happy, and for a while that was true for me. For the first two years I ached, every day. And I had such bad dreams. But then I made the decision to start working on my little shop and all that went away.

You can't just shuffle people around like they're deck chairs on a ship. You have to help them change their lives, and you have to give them the requisite resources to do so.

Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools.

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

At some point, you have to declare an idea dead and, if not a failure, then at least not a success.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

Mothering is just so different now from the way it was before. Especially with my mom. She was like the anti-helicopter mom. She was like an inflatable-tube, blow-up-flamingo-in-the-pool mom. Her philosophy was, the situation will declare itself.

The idea of England in decline is very attractive.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

My declining allure is a source of great sadness to me.

There was a time, about six or seven years ago, when everything was extremely bling and decorative. I was not at peace with that kind of world.

There are people getting screwed in our country every single second, minute, hour of the day. And if by our work, we can decrease that number, we'll make a difference; we'll be doing our jobs.

Since coming to the major leagues, my passion toward baseball had started to decrease.

Do I miss the darts? No, not at all. It has been great not to get up in the morning and have to be dedicated anymore. That is the best part.

I've had to think about my haircare more seriously since growing it long. When you have short hair you're constantly dealing with much younger sections of hair and it always looks really healthy. With longer hair it takes more time and dedication.

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area.

I know deep down I'm not a racist.

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

I think the deepest level of our freedom is being able to change our identity.