Quotes About Change

The Japanese people are usually very prudent, even when they are convinced change is necessary.

Someone remarked that the newspapers or the news magazines are the same as the psalms except that the names changed in the stories. Maybe you can't understand the psalms without understanding the newspaper and the other way around.

To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

I think the older I get, the more psycho I get.

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

I was a psycho in college.

In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

You know, every year 'Torchwood' has become something a little different than it was before. It's still sci-fi, but it doesn't just deal with spaceships and aliens all the time, because we've done that. Our science fiction is more psychological.

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

You see, Leavers desperately need a psychological win. We need to feel our vote for change can actually change things.

I'm interested in extrovert characters, people who are doing something. But I used to only be able to photograph people I was interested in or attracted to, either psychologically or physically. That all changed when I did the 'Go Sees.'

Psychologically, when you've been overweight, you want to achieve the polar opposite.

If I had not become an actress, I would be a journalist or a psychologist: I like to analyze the mind and be involved in political moments that change history.

I talked to everyone. But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist. That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did.

As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Habituation is indeed a fact of human psychology. That's one reason we like novelty, including different cuts of jeans.

I entered Hofstra University as a psychology major.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

Some friends think I'm dull now. But I think it's great that I'm no longer trying to make everyone laugh in the pub.