Quotes About Change

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

An actor's career doesn't feel like just one career to me. It feels like about five or six. Because every six or seven years, you look in the mirror and you have a completely different product.

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London.

People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

If you're the most productive person in your community, it's definitely time to find a new community.

I have ideas, but those ideas could be wrong. The only way that you would change someone's mind is through dialogue, through productive discussion. If you're not going to have productive discussion, what are you going to do?

Going back to the past is not productive.

If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession.

I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

When you're in a public profession like I was, and you stop doing it like I did, people think you're either crazy or dead.

When I was 11 years old, my family had to leave East Germany and begin a new life in West Germany overnight. Until my father could get back into his original profession as a government employee, my parents operated a small laundry business in our little town. I became the laundry delivery boy.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.

I soon realized that the best thing I could do for the profession of human services was to get out of it.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

Nothing lasts forever in my profession.