Quotes About Change

There is magic in motion. There is energy in change. There is something in all of us to make a difference in anyway, everyday.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

If you don't change, then what's the point of anything happening to you?

I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.

Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.

The chase causes you to be overcommitted and under-connected. Something has to change, or your marriage will suffer the consequences.

Born to be wild -- live to outgrow it.

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.

People come up to you and say, "Oh man, that's the scariest thing in the world what you do, talk in front of people." It's not scary to me. Your job is scary to me, fucking selling shoes in the mall for 30 years only to have the place go out of business.

These days, things were different. Much different. For the most part, what fun there was to be had at Upton Park came from the cat and mouse side of the contest. Thinking on your feet and trying to outwit old bill while still trying to get one over on the opposition. It was like a real life computer game, Theme Hooligan. He still got a buzz from it though, but not the same buzz. And he wasn't alone. The scene was dying on its arse although that wasn't always down to the police.

Aggressive habits seem to be learned early in life, and once established, are resistant to change and predictive of serious adult antisocial behavior.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you.

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end."

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Ford... you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

Jesus uses one of the most powerful pictures in the Bible of his seeking love for lost people. He portrays himself standing at the door of the church or standing at the door of a human heart and knocking. It's unlikely that the entire religious crowd at Laodicea would repent, but Jesus is hopeful that at least one will hear his knock or his voice calling. If anyone responds and opens the door, Jesus will enter that heart and change that life.