Quotes About Change

I like to play with contrast. It's about changing people's perceptions of people.

I can neither change people's perceptions nor change my background, and nor would I wish to.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

I want to make this world perfect.

We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Very often when you see families it's all perfect and neat, and parenting isn't like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.

I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.

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

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

You can never get perfection. There have to be constant course corrections and there will be constant course corrections on Brexit-related stuff once we leave the E.U.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.

I used to focus so much on winning. I used to be such a perfectionist.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

Understanding the past is perfectly admissible if your issue is accepting the past. But if your issue is changing the future, understanding will not take you there.

I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

If every civil servant does his job perfectly, then I am sure the world will be a better place.

I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

There will be a time when I won't be able to perform in the ring.

I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.

Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.