Quotes About Change

We can use decision-making to choose the habits we want to form, use willpower to get the habit started, then - and this is the best part - we can allow the extraordinary power of habit to take over. At that point, we're free from the need to decide and the need to use willpower.

I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.

My brothers and I had a gospel quartet, and that was the only music people listened to. But I was already gravitating towards songs by Sam Cooke, and then one day I put on a Jackie Wilson record, and baby, I was thrown right out of the house.

When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.

To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.

I had a Skoda, but after Wimbledon, I changed to BMW.

When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.

Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at Wimbledon.

It's all changed now at Wimbledon. There's just one big loo for the whole Royal Box. I don't think we're treated differently.

Somewhere in the '60s, actors became wimps and basket-case psychotics.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you're staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It's very simple when you look at it.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'

Communism will win.

We have to fight climate change like we actually want to win.

I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.

When Bale first started at Tottenham, they were struggling to win whenever he played at left-back, but it is unbelievable how quickly things can change in football.

As a teenager, Tiger was self-assured and mature, yet also warm and charming. But the warm outward veneer gradually changed. When he pulled off his 'win for the ages' at the 1997 Masters, he already was sharing less of his softer, emotional side.

In politics, you win and you lose. You come up in power, you go down; it's part of life.

Like many traditional feminists, I became one of the boys, only better. For a while it gave me a buzz to win at their game, but ultimately, that kind of power just goes nowhere. Traditional feminism excludes men and so perpetuates conflict. I am not interested in warring about power.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

If you win games, at the top, there's no pressure to change. You change when you have to change. You change when you don't win anymore.