Quotes About Change

My way of playing has changed, the way I view points and look for different openings, certain opportunities.

If we think something is not good, we'll openly say it. If there's choreography, for example, and it feels like it's going to be too taxing on our physical resources - as I said, we're not getting any younger - we'll say so, and then we'll make those changes.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.

It's a new world that's very, very difficult to make sense of. But we have a new hope. We have a new man. America has now elected its first openly black President.

You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.

As cliche as it sounds, when one door closes, another one opens. Whenever I've gotten bad news about something, within a week or two there's another opportunity that brings new hope or keeps me motivated.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.

Support women directors. When a play opens, and it's by a woman, put your money down.

As you grow older, there are lesser and lesser roles for you in the movies, while in dance the field opens up as you mature.

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.

Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.

If you decide to work with the opera world, chances are there are going to be people who resist that.

Opera needs a major makeover; the large opera houses are too in thrall to their conservative patrons.

In the early '80s when I came to London, I didn't like opera. I didn't know anything about it.

I think, I want to see a Republican Party that has more folks that, that look and sound and operate like I do.

The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

I think we operate in a very dynamic marketplace, and as such, we need to constantly innovate.

I'll be honest: 'Badlands' changed my life: it really did rewire my brain as to how film can operate.

When you lose someone you have two choices. You can stay stuck where you are or you can say, 'I am now on my own, my life has changed and I need to change the way I operate.'

After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.

I've had an operation on my jaw - I don't have the big jaw anymore - and I've also had an operation on my eyes.