Quotes About Change

Even though I loved the Fifties doo-wop, you couldn't hold on to it. You had to change, or you was gon' be antique real quick, like the Ink Spots. And then we were at Motown and you had the Rolling Stones, simple rock & roll became the new thing.

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

You can't always count on the devices, attitudes, and conceits that stood you in good stead in 1972 or 1973, or 1978-79, to still have the same impact all these years later.

Time never stood still for me. It went too fast; that was the bad thing about it!

The day after Donald Trump was elected, Chinese business leaders, including the heads of Baidu, stood up and gave a speech saying, 'Come to China and build your company now.' The cognitive dissonance of that was amazing for some of us to think we might be losing our leadership role in building companies.

Throughout my first year in office, I have stood up for principles that will guide our country back toward the path of freedom and prosperity.

I've stood down as UKIP leader. I'm not responsible for these people anymore.

If you are not around when Africa truly gets going, it would be much like the sceptics who stood on the sidelines in the 1990s convinced that China was going nowhere. How wrong they were.

If you look at South Africa and President Nelson Mandela, it was people of the world who held their hands together and stood up to make a difference. So 'people power' is important.

The two basic social identities were Normal and Greaser; although a few sophisticated girls wore peace signs, hippies didn't exist, and while a seminal punk band, Iggy and the Stooges, was playing in nearby Ann Arbor, punk didn't exist yet, either.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

The idea that we have the capacity to change or stop the climate, I'm just skeptical.

If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

It's just scary to think how fast everything is rolling, and you can't stop it.

Neither an ox nor a donkey is able to stop the progress of socialism.

The world doesn't stop spinning for anybody.

What we should in fact do, is stop allowing philosophers to reflect 'on' things. The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

However painful or regrettable Brexit may be, it will not stop the E.U. as it moves to the future; we need to move forward.

When you can't stop what you're doing long enough to improve it, you will never stop what you are doing.

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.