Quotes About Change

I don't know if I'm going to be a manager forever. I don't know if I'm going to be producing films or television shows.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

I have to tell you, every day is a roller coaster.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.

The day before 'Beverly Hills Cop' opened, I was at a branch of my bank, and the teller asked me for two pieces of identification. Four days after it opened, I was being waved to on the freeway.

When you're telling a story, the best stories, every character has an arc. Every one. And that arc is usually about finding yourself, or about at least finding something about yourself that you didn't know.

I'm telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I was the original moderniser in the Conservative Party, telling it, 'No change, no chance.'

They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come back sounding... old.

I've got people telling me their lives have been changed in a small way because of something I did, that's crazy. That's all that matters.

I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.

Writing is powerful. Whether it's a little girl hiding from the Nazis in an attic, or Amnesty International writing letters on behalf of political prisoners, the power of telling stories is usually what causes change.

If you think America is great, remember that every person telling you otherwise may carry a clue to making it greater.

It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.

Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

This guy kept telling us that rock was the big thing, everyone's talking about the big thing, our band was the big thing. So he made us change our name to The Big Thing. Can you believe that?!

From what I see, people of color are being called on in a different way. We're being heard in a different way - louder. And I think it's such an exciting time. The power structure is being redefined, and we're redefining beauty with the stories that we're telling and the women we're showing on our covers.

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.