Quotes About Change

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

I change my training probably every two months. The only thing that stays consistent is that I've become a pretty psychotic runner.

'Saturday Night Live' will always be this amazing, powerful behemoth, but it's also not the only thing happening in comedy anymore.

They all come from the street - tap, jazz and flamenco. And the streets are always changing. If it comes from the streets, change is the only thing that's consistent.

The problem with technology, as with fashion, is that it's impossible to be 'in' forever.

Part of the problem with politics is we don't have people who want to get in the fray because of guys like Sen. McConnell, who essentially invented negative campaigning.

The problem with most people who play the market is that they are not flexible.

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.

The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever.

I think the problem with President Obama - and I like him personally, I came into the Senate with him - is his agenda.

The problem with existing biology is you change only one or two genes at a time.

The problem with my peers is they don't understand television. You have to work within the confines of what executives will allow you to put on TV. Otherwise, we've not done anything, we've not really struggled to change the culture at all.

The problem with the Democratic Party is, we're like, 'If we just get another presidential candidate in there, everything will be OK.' We should be focusing on school boards, city council races, state legislatures.

A film must have two elements - it must deal with the real world and show how it could be made better.

The real world is not in one direction.

When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.

I think for anything to change, in the real world, people have got to change on the inside and that's what we want to start, to get people to think and do more themselves and get involved in whatever they want to get involved with.

Everybody is going to face adversity at some point, definitely when you leave college and try to get into the real world so to speak and get your first job.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.