Quotes About Change

I focus a lot on training and running because in T20s one run-out or one catch can also change the momentum of the opposition.

I've never been an MP in government unfortunately and only know what it's like to be in opposition.

Science fiction isn't just thinking about the world out there. It's also thinking about how that world might be - a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they're going to change the world we live in, they - and all of us - have to be able to think about a world that works differently.

Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice.

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

The burden of the past is only, I think, oppressive when you've got to go on the experience of the avant garde.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

You know what Oprah taught me? Unless you count as changing your life having a neighborhood dad say to you every morning at the school bus stop, 'You sure don't look as good as you did on 'Oprah!', being on 'Oprah' doesn't change your life.

There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.

Optimism can be relearnt.

The '60s were a time of great optimism and hope. There was a buzz - everybody could be successful.

The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

It's not such a bad thing to bring some naive optimism to Washington.

Let optimists rule the world.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

I'm getting optimistic. I think, as I talk to people around the country - they seem to get it. They want a return to those things that made America different and great.

I left Russia in 1993 optimistic that democracy had taken hold despite the obstacles.