Quotes About Change

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

Startups are all about breaking the rules and changing the 'natural order' of things. So let's do that for Series A terms.

An artist will starve unless he is near big centers of population. We should create many of these cultural centers right in our own slums.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

All our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last.

I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment.

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.

Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.

Being silent and doing nothing is never the right answer. What happens in one state can happen in another.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

I cannot allow state government to continue to be consumed by this game of political 'gotcha.'

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

State government needs to embrace change and be willing to take responsible risks to move into the future.

With fresh eyes, an aggressive approach, and collaboration, we can modernize state government the way it should be.

Running a magazine is a journalistic assignment, and part of the fun of being a journalist is that you get to change jobs every so often. Though there's no stated term limit, four or five years should be plenty of time to put your stamp on a publication.

We futurists have a magic button. We follow every statement about a failed forecast with 'yet.'

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.

I haven't made a political statement in quite a long time because, frankly, they get repeated, changed.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

We're all living blinkered lives, and we're not seeing what's going on and looking to change it. I'm not saying that everyone has to make a political statement, but we need to be more aware of what's happening and why.

The day of the press statement has gone.

The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

I started at HSN in May of 2006, and by October, we had rolled out a new brand image, a new tagline, a new vision statement, a new customer manifesto, and new advertising.