Quotes About Change

The Americans love me because I'm so completely unwilling to change my whole Britishness.

We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

If everything is going well in my life then I start to read the papers more and I start to worry about everything I can't deal with. They say wisdom is knowing what you can fix and what you can't change. I'm very unwise.

Following the automotive pack down unwise and unprofitable roads is not just naive but also very dangerous.

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.

Life goes on, and we have to keep coming up with fresh ideas.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Life is short, and nobody knows what's around the corner, but I'm up for lots of new challenges.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Since I remember still very clearly what it was like not being popular or in a successful band, I know that things go up and down, and you cannot expect this to be on the same trajectory forever. It won't be. Because even if you get to be the biggest band in the world, it's gonna change.

When you have a new coach, a couple new guys, and a young team, the frustrating part throughout the year is the up and down.

It would be beautiful to be able to walk up and down Peckham still, because I love it; it's where I grew up. But it just doesn't work. There are a lot of people who love you but there's jealousy too.

Everybody goes up and down throughout their lives.

People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.

That's what the Premier League is, that will never change. There will be periods when you're up and down.

It seems like we're getting fewer stops in California every year. It's good because we're exposing the sport to other parts of the country. But it's not like it used to be, when we played for a hearty handshake, slept in vans and traveled up and down the coast from Santa Cruz to San Diego.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.