Quotes About Change

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.

For much of my career I had no authentic political voice. I had been campaigning all over the country not to change the world or shake up my audiences but to please the roomful of people to whom I was speaking... As a result, my words rarely had the ring of truth to the nonpolitical observer.

In the city, you're always looking around, observing everything. In some neighborhoods, your life can depend on it. The details change constantly.

I always want to do different things. I'm always obsessed with trying to do different things.

I've always been obsessed with health and fitness and hence been a firm believer that change needs to begin from the inside!

I used to say I would never run unless I was being chased by someone with a gun. Now I'm a little obsessed with it!

All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70; 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40; so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

Our culture is so obsessed with the idea that you're going to go through a crisis or some difficult event and come out the other side a changed or improved person, and I just think that if you're honest, that often does not happen, and in fact, it shouldn't happen.

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.

Maybe this whole obsession about colouring our hair is about our inability to grow up. To let go of the fact we aren't children any more, and the whole thing about changing our faces and looking young, and 60 being the new 40, is maybe we don't want to let go of our childhood.

I'm obsessive enough about getting fit, it's ridiculous. I'm 40 now, and I've got to stop doing it soon. I have to start getting fat and old!

Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

The idea of the damsel in distress is fast becoming obsolete.

In this business it takes time to be really good - and by that time, you're obsolete.

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.