Quotes About Change

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

The system is broken, and we can fix it. It's not hard. We just have to do the work.

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

Our first work must be the annihilation of everything as it now exists.

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

The work to eradicate corruption must begin from the top. It is spread like termite in our country. We have to work at all levels to eradicate corruption

When I see the poor in India, it reminds me of the work that I have to do for them.

I want to work for the poor in my country.

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

Even though the clock didn't work, we kept the clock because of how we felt about Franklin D. Roosevelt . A lot since then I knew about FDR I wouldn't have been so enthusiastic.

When it came time to sequence the album, the new arrangements really demanded a different order. They were so different than they were before that the old sequence didn't work anymore.

What is needed today is for all of us to work to change the world's mind about God.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

In the novel, I can change things and simplify, and make events work towards whatever meanings I'm trying to get at more efficiently.

That's what I think when people do their "best stuff" collection. When you start to think, "Oh, I will just present my 10 years of work," that's not a good sign.

I felt like I had reached the end of a period of life, where the work was jumping about and pushing something new every time. I wanted to dial it back and create a language that was stable and deep.