Quotes About Change

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

As you work on something, whether it's a painting or a piece of music, it's going to evolve. A relationship is like that too.

The dialogue between women is a rich field, but change does not come without a lot of reading, asking, listening, risk-taking and hard work.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

I wanted to work on policy because I think it really makes a difference.

When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work.

I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

For a long time I was lost. My life got a lot better when I stopped thinking about my life and started thinking about my work and the purpose of that work.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Americans are hungry for a discussion on policy solutions to the problems in their communities that work.

There is so much work left to be done in the world and for me, I am hoping to make the change I can and do the work I need to do through this gift I've been given.

I lost my passion for work. No, that's a negative statement. I just had a bigger passion for something else, for my son, and growing up with him.

We need to work on the world so it will not be so oppressive.

I've tended to work at fast-growing companies that improve the way business gets done.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

I didn't have to work out before 35 but now I have to.

Whether people identify as feminists or not, if they're doing work that furthers a feminist cause, I think that's wonderful, like if it works for me, right, it works for the movement.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

You need to WANT to change. You need to be willing to do the work.

There is nothing beyond the reach of ordinary citizens doing the daily work of democracy, and no problem too great to tackle with the power of active citizenship.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

The corporations own the elections and they're manipulating the masses. We have to come up with a new system, because this one is broken. That's why I work very hard to create new patterns.