Quotes About Change

Our military leaders have studied the climate change issue and now believe that mitigating climate change is an urgent national security issue.

From the Bush Administration to the 9-11 Commission, there is an urgent and universally recognized need to change the broken formula through which Homeland Security grant money currently is allocated to our first responders.

Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.

The scientific consensus is that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. This science should be both supported and understood by anyone who hopes to lead NASA, one of our nation's top science agencies.

As signs of climate instability increase, radical and rapid action is becoming ever more urgent.

The need to challenge the status quo is just more obvious when you're failing than when you're succeeding. But it's no less urgent.

My life consists of intense focus on urgent areas of development, and then abandonment of that focus shortly afterwards.

We need to take urgent action on climate change.

When, who, and what things happen to becomes meaningful, then what happens starts to matter, and play can evoke strong emotions, fierce and ongoing urges to succeed, and a desire to leave a mark, drive meaningful change, or build lasting institutions.

Never change the URL of your blog. I've done it once, and I lost much of my readership. It took several months to build up the same reader patterns and trust.

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Things will only improve when the people - all of us - say to authorities, 'I will hold you responsible.' We should all be showing up at city council meetings, lighting up every community with activism and mobilization.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

We turn the Cube and it twists us.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

People's perception changes so fast. You win, and people say, 'Well, he had all of those sanctions at USC, and that's why he lost.' You lose, and, 'OK, he's a bad head coach, and he's just a good play-caller wherever he has been.'

I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.