Quotes About Change

People change. They get successful and change. They get unsuccessful and change.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

It doesn't matter how successful or how unsuccessful a team is. It can all change with one pick.

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to another bar. I lived that way when I was unemployed, when I was a snowboard instructor, and when I was at NYU. A lot of my personality is stuck in those five years, and I don't know if that's ever gonna change.

There's no law of physics that says we have to be an unsustainable society - in fact, quite the opposite. The planet's ready to work with us if we're ready to think differently, but we do have to make that jump and start to do things in new ways.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

We need what I have often called an ecological approach to the management of these resources and we do not have that now. We have the inertia of past habits, unsustainable habits.

The faltering of our suburban living arrangement is probably certain. The response of suburbanites is not. Will they elect maniacs who promise to make America just like it was in 1997? Will there be a desperate attempt to sustain the unsustainable by authoritarian measures? Will the institutions of order and justice fail in the process?

The status quo on prescription drug prices is deeply broken and unsustainable.

I have a low tolerance for people who complain about things but never do anything to change them. This led me to conclude that the single largest pool of untapped natural resources in this world is human good intentions that are never translated into actions.

One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

A lot of the things that until now seemed unthinkable are starting to be thinkable.

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'

Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable.

The fall of Rome seemed unthinkable to people at the time but inevitable to historians reflecting upon it with the benefit of context.

I can't say there was a last straw because there have been so many straws, but certainly the horrors at the border, separating children from their parents, the torture, the kidnapping and the incarceration of them in cages was unthinkable, unbearable. When an opportunity presented itself to me to do something, I needed to take a leap.

The humiliating idea that we just slide from the top E.U. table to third country is unthinkable.

At places like Davos, people like to tell success stories. But their financial success has come with an unthinkable price tag. And on climate change, we have to acknowledge we have failed.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.