Quotes About Change

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

It is weariness to keep toiling at the same things so that one becomes ruled by them.

When I had no work and all this time on my hands, I couldn't get a date. Now that I have women banging on my door, I have no time to answer it.

I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn't work out so I thought I'd take on acting.

I left my marriage knowing I'd have to work. I have.

We're still at the beginning of a major transition in how people communicate and work together.

Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.

Remind yourself of the value of detaching from work that's out of your hands and committing to new work that wants to be born.

Sometimes you can gradually improve things. But sometimes, they don't work, and you've just got to just say: Let's grind this baby to a halt.

And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world.

One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America.

Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.