Quotes About Change

I've learnt that your life is more interesting and fulfilling when you don't lead it in a straight line and you go off on zigzags. I've made it a rule that if life becomes too comfortable and easy, I'll disrupt it.

What history taught me is that societies are not static and that the straight line of progressive ideals - this thinking we have that a society will just magically become more egalitarian over time - is patently false.

The world is getting better, but not in a straight line.

None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

I remember going through that process of growing my hair out, straightening it, cutting off the relaxed hair. I finally got to a point where I went to the Dominicans because they can straighten it real good. By the end of the day, the part of my hair that had just been pressed straight was already starting to coil back up.

I think it's actually more difficult to come to a club where everything is going great and everyone is happy. When you take over from a guy who has been sacked because things weren't going well, it's more straightforward.

For us to dial back a little bit and have a little more straightforward, singalong appeal was a challenge. In order to do that, we had to throw away a lot of stuff.

Covid has been a strain on all of us in some form or fashion.

The divorce rate in 1946 was higher than it ever had been and as high as it ever would be until the '70s. The reason was that prior relationships had not endured the strain of war.

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.

I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes.

I'd been with Saints for 13 years, so it was always going to be a bit strange going back for the first time.

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

I feel like I can be six different people in one day sometimes. Which is fun but also really strange in my own brain.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

I know my name gets used illegally all the time all over the internet. You know, it is a trademarked name, so it will be something that we always have to deal with. I never needed to change it. It was always fine with me. It is a strange name; that's for sure.